Odd job man: some confessions of a slang lexicographer
by Green, Jonathon 1948-.
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BookPublisher: Jonathan Cape 2014ISBN: 9780224097581; 022409758X.Classification number: 413.092 GRESubject(s): Green 1948- | English language -- Slang | English language -- LexicographySubject: 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
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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
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