The Oxford Dictionary of Slang

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Название: The Oxford Dictionary of Slang

Автор: John Ayto

Издательство: Oxford University Press

Год издания: 2000

Страниц: 480

Формат: PDF

Качество: норм.

Размер файла: 17 Мб

Язык: English

Описание:

Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. Here, John Ayto has brought together over 10,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, to provide a comprehensive and highly engaging guide to the most outspoken corner of our language.

Unlike most such dictionaries, this volume is organized thematically, with slang words gathered under such headings as "the body and its functions" or "sustenance and intoxication." Within each section, the words are listed chronologically, starting with the century's earliest words and phrases and progressing right through to the present day, thus illuminating the development of slang and colloquial language over the last hundred years.