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Vice Slang by Tom Dalzell
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $69.07Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you... -
Sex Slang by Tom Dalzell
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $69.15Are you a beaver cleaver or the office bike? Would you rather pack fudge or munch carpet? Do you content yourself with paddling the pickle as you're still a cherry boy?Sex Slang will not only give... -
The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 by Tom Dalzell 9781597144681
Booksplease Price: $61.61"Resplendent.... A masterwork of history."-Ron Jacobs, CounterpunchIn eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the... -
Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles by Tom Dalzell
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against... -
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell
Booksplease Price: $77.78The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume... -
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell 9780367570491
RRP: $146.96Booksplease Price: $134.80Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English Tom Dalzell 9781138722088
RRP: $182.68Booksplease Price: $170.60The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as... -
Global English Slang: Methodologies and Perspectives Julie Coleman 9780415842686
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today.The book illustrates the application of a... -
G.I. Jive: A Dictionary of Words at War: The Vernacular of Victory (1939-1946) Paul Dickson 9798765145135
Booksplease Price: $138.71The 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... -
Slang: The People's Poetry by Michael Adams 9780199913770
RRP: $43.03Booksplease Price: $34.04Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry,... -
Slang: The People's Poetry by Michael Adams 9780195314632
RRP: $47.23Booksplease Price: $38.18Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry,...