Odd job man:
Green, Jonathon 1948-
Odd job man: some confessions of a slang lexicographer - Jonathan Cape 2014 - 330 pages
Includes index
For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang - the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom - producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume 'Green's Dictionary of Slang', that have been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative ever compiled. In this fascinating memoir Green reveals that he first began collecting slang in the 1970s, noticing that the contemporary authorities (notably Eric Partridge) preferred the past to the present, unaware of the h
9780224097581 022409758X
100=NOTNACO 600=NOTNACO
Green 1948- Jonathon
English language--Slang
English language--Lexicography
413.092 GRE
Odd job man: some confessions of a slang lexicographer - Jonathan Cape 2014 - 330 pages
Includes index
For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang - the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom - producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume 'Green's Dictionary of Slang', that have been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative ever compiled. In this fascinating memoir Green reveals that he first began collecting slang in the 1970s, noticing that the contemporary authorities (notably Eric Partridge) preferred the past to the present, unaware of the h
9780224097581 022409758X
100=NOTNACO 600=NOTNACO
Green 1948- Jonathon
English language--Slang
English language--Lexicography
413.092 GRE