The city in slang : New York life and popular speech
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The city in slang : New York life and popular speech
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and indexes
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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.
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