Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
Title Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang PDF eBook
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Pages
Release 1994
Genre Americanisms
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Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: A-G

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: A-G
Title Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: A-G PDF eBook
Author Jonathan E. Lighter
Publisher Random House Reference
Pages 1088
Release 1994
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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Dictionary of American slang, covering all eras of American history with accurate definitions and extensive, dated citations.

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
Title Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang PDF eBook
Author Jonathan E. Lighter
Publisher
Pages 1128
Release 1999
Genre Americanisms
ISBN 9780679434658

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A collection of American slang which includes both present-day and historical terms

The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang

The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Title The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang PDF eBook
Author Grant Barrett
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 321
Release 2006-04-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0199760454

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Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang

The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Title The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang PDF eBook
Author Grant Barrett
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 320
Release 2004-09-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0190292059

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Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Historical Dictionary of American Slang
Title Historical Dictionary of American Slang PDF eBook
Author Jonathan E. Lighter
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 984
Release 2007-07-01
Genre Reference
ISBN 9780195174182

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American English

American English
Title American English PDF eBook
Author Walt Wolfram
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 466
Release 2015-12-21
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1118390229

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The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions Written for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics Includes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of American English dialects