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Dictionary of Jargon by Jonathon Green
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.64First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon... -
Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon by Jonathon Green
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69George Orwell coined the term 'Newspeak' for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald... -
Slang: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathon Green 9780198729532
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of... -
Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang by Jonathon Green 9780199398140
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £26.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sounds & Furies: The Love-Hate Relationship between Women and Slang by Jonathon Green
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.69'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of... -
The New Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book-named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal "Shapiro does original... -
Empty Wigs Jonathan Meades 9781806770045
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.23'Go to Empty Wigs for prose that never ceases to dazzle, for an extended holiday from contemporary pieties and to disgrace yourself with laughter' Paul Genders, Literary Review Empty Wigs is a... -
G.I. Jive: A Dictionary of Words at War: The Vernacular of Victory (1939-1946) Paul Dickson 9798765145135
Booksplease Price: £66.05The language of American World War II military service began to evolve with the first draftees of 1940. Their emerging vocabulary was irreverent, creative, and often obscene, influenced by the worlds... -
The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower 9780195393118
Booksplease Price: £16.89We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a... -
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or worse - Polari offered its... -
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780198826163
Booksplease Price: £31.77This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a... -
You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English by Elyse Graham
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £15.60From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialect all its own. Often imitated and just as often...