![]() ![]() Green, a highly prolific journalist and author of many books, often about language, produced his first slang dictionary in 1984, but it was the Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (1998 second edition, 2005) that truly established him as a serious presence. For the middle part of the last century, it was the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, (1937 and later editions) by the New Zealand-born Eric Partridge, that was the representative of the comprehensive one-volume slang dictionary now, it is Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary. This is no criticism until recently the academy had little interest in slang, and it was up to diligent enthusiasts, rather than linguistically trained scholars, to study this lexis. raditionally, the most prominent slang dictionaries have been written by what are often called "amateurs," which is to say people outside of the academy who rely primarily on book sales, rather than university appointments, for their income. ![]() Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America Dictionary Society of North America Including slang from all English-speaking countries, dated entries, and historical as well as modern terms, the Cassell's dictionary became the one-volume dictionary of choice for the serious student of slang. Chambers Slang Dictionary (review) Chambers Slang Dictionary (review) ![]()
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