The city in slang : New York life and popular speech

Author(s)

• Allen, Irving L.

Bibliographic Information

The city in slang : New York life and popular speech

Irving Lewis Allen

Oxford University Press, 1993

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA19595188
• ISBN:
  • 0195075919
• LCCN: 92009377
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 307 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE3101.N7
  • DC20 : 427/.97471
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Spoken English -- New York (N.Y.)
  • LCSH : English language -- Social aspects -- New York (N.Y.)
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : English language -- New York (N.Y.) -- Slang
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Popular culture
  • LCSH : City and town life -- Terminology
  • LCSH : Americanisms -- New York (N.Y.)