Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Orion. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassell s Rhyming Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want rice and Aberdeens for dinner? Or andy mcnish--wouldn't that be apples and spice? It's rhyme time, and this witty, wildly inventive dictionary will inform you those "code words" stand for beans, fish, and nice. Amazingly detailed, it includes a history of rhyming slang, 100 categories, and over 2,500 phrases. Best of all, it takes a "bilingual" approach that lets you learn new slang while looking up the old!
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Download or read book The Cassell Dictionary and Thesaurus written by E. M. Kirkpatrick and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's two books in one, with over 200,000 entries -- and that saves time and trouble! This combination of dictionary and thesaurus brings you right to the word you need. Because the synonyms are linked to definitions, it's less likely you'll choose one that doesn't convey exactly the right meaning. Of course, it also does everything you'd expect a regular dictionary to do -- detail grammar, highlight slang, suggest antonyms, and give pronunciation guidelines.
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Download or read book The Cassell Concise Dictionary written by Lesley Brown and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of a standard reference work offers an expanded text, with a range of new slang and technical terms, notes on grammar, and help with common mistakes and mispronunciations. The dictionary also has a misspelling guide to help locate tricky spellings.
Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations written by Jonathon Green and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of wryly amusing quotations on every conceivable aspect of life, arranged thematicallyTopics covered range from acting to writing, from happiness to poverty, and from civilisation to sexRepresents the biting wit and world-weary wisdom of cynics from all walks of life and all periods of history, including Aesop, Simone de Beauvoir, Noel Coward, Bette Davis, Albert Einstein and Frederick the Great to name but a fewFull author index
Download or read book The Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories written by Adrian Room and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: offers an in-depth yet accessible study of a fascinating subjectadditional notes go far beyond other etymology dictionaries
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Download or read book The Cassell Dictionary of English Idioms written by Rosalind Fergusson and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to over 10,000 English idioms, from apple-pie to zonk out. It defines and explains each idiom and includes examples to show the context in which particular idioms are used. Included is an explanation of where unusual idioms came from and what their history has been.
Download or read book The Cassell Dictionary of Catchphrases written by Nigel Rees and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an entertaining guide to the myriad popular expressions and sayings that pepper the language. The dictionary not only explains the meanings of over 1200 expressions, but also shows where they came from and how thay became popular
Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases written by Adrian Room and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language is packed with imported words and phrases from languages ancient and modern and CASSELL'S FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES is an engrossing guide. This book goes far beyond the partial coverage of conventional dictionaries and includes a vast range of everyday vocabulary, specialist terms and famous tags and mottos. Each entry is defined and dated with details of derivation and pronunciation.
Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations written by Jonathon Green and published by Cassell PLC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together devastating views on figures as diverse as Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Marilyn MonroeIncludes coverage of national insults, and attacks on professions, institutions and placesFull author indexNow in paperback
Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins written by Nigel Rees and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have any idea where the word "nerd" came from, or "twerp"? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. *Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. *Learn that bikini comes from the name of a Pacific island used in the 1940s for atomic bomb tests. *Learn why a flight data recorder is called a black box--even though it's orange. 224 pages 5 x 7 3/4.
Download or read book Cassell s English Dictionary written by Lesley Brown and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassell's English Dictionary is superb value for money. It boasts well over 200,000 entries, giving full coverage of today's English, and offers an array of indispensable features, including detailed guidance on idiom, grammar and English usage, a user-friendly pronunciation system and Cassell's unique guide to common misspellings. An attractively packaged book, Cassell's English Dictionary forms part of a new range of key reference works.
Download or read book The Cassell dictionary of clich s written by Nigel Rees and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sick and tired of cliches? Uncover all kinds of fun facts about how clichQs came to be. Many of these phrases have journalistic origins, many are literary, and some go as far back as the Bible -- but every entry will astound you. And the alphabetical, dictionary format makes it easy to find just what you're looking for.
