Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
From a Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
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The English language is in a state of perpetual change and Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and unconventional English presents a snapshot of its state into the nineties. In this concise edition, Paul Beale continues the tradition begun in Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, while making it particularly relevant to our understanding of the language of the present day. More than 1500 new terms have been added - coinages of the 1980s that had not yet come to light when the unabridged edition last went to press in 1983. Like its parent volume, the concise edition provides a account of the vivid, racy, and informative elements of our language, documenting the living history of English and social history of the twentieth century.
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Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Eric Partridge, Paul Beale
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- 1990
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- Title
- Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
- Subtitle
- From a Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eric Partridge, Paul Beale
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN10
- 0026053500
- ISBN13
- 9780026053501
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- The English language is in a state of perpetual change and Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and unconventional English presents a snapshot of its state into the nineties. In this concise edition, Paul Beale continues the tradition begun in Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, while making it particularly relevant to our understanding of the language of the present day. More than 1500 new terms have been added - coinages of the 1980s that had not yet come to light when the unabridged edition last went to press in 1983. Like its parent volume, the concise edition provides a account of the vivid, racy, and informative elements of our language, documenting the living history of English and social history of the twentieth century.