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 paperbacks)
Oxford University Press, 1995
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 275-287
Includes indexes
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Description
Irving Lewis Allen provides an insightful history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. Anecdotal and at times analytical, this book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.
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