Download or read book The American Thesaurus of Slang written by Lester V. Berrey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Thesaurus of Slang with Supplement written by Atcheson Laughlin Hench and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Thesaurus of Slang written by Lester V. Berrey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Thesaurus of Slang written by Lester V. Berrey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Thesaurus of Slang with Supplement a Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech 1942 6th Pr written by L.V. Berrey and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 117487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Thesaurus of Slang with Supplement a Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech by Lester V Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark Foreword by Louise Pound written by Melvin Van Den Bark and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American slang written by Harold Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thesaurus of American Slang written by Robert L. Chapman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1991 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 17,000 zippy synonyms for thousands of alphabetically arranged slang words--the whole nine yards--from AC-DC to zombie. Here are America's most important contemporary and historic slang words and phrases--originating in the sports world, drug culture, media, ethnic enclaves, and elsewhere.
Download or read book Dictionary of American Slang written by Harold Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Slang written by Harold Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book McGraw Hill s Dictionary of American Slang 4E PB written by Richard A. Spears and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More bling for the buck! The #1 guide to American slang is now bigger, more up-to-date, and easier to use This new edition of McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions offers complete definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources, ranging from golden oldies such as . . . golden oldie, to recent coinages like shizzle (gangsta), jonx (Wall Street), and ping (the Internet). Each entry is followed by examples illustrating how an expression is used in everyday conversation and, where necessary, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciations are given, as well as cautionary notes for crude, inflammatory, or taboo expressions. This edition also features a fascinating introduction on “What is Slang?,” a Thematic Index that cross-references expressions by standard terms--such as Angry, Drunk, Food, Good-bye, Mess-up, Money, and Stupidity--and a Hidden Word Index that lets you identify and locate even partially remembered expressions and phrases.
Download or read book Thesaurus of American Slang written by Robert L. Chapman and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents America's contemporary and historic slang words and phrases, with brief definitions and usage examples.
Download or read book Dictionary of American Slang written by Harold Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Language Supplement 2 written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang written by Grant Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
Download or read book American Language Supplement 1 written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
