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The Stories of Slang - Language at its most human (Paperback)
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'If you're up for an adventure through the back alleys of English,
The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.' Kory Stamper, Times
Literary Supplement 'Few lexicographers are lucky enough to have
both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly
about [slang]. Jonathon Green is one . . . Lovers of language
should be grateful to those who create slang, and to those few like
Mr Green who make it their work to open this window into the psyche
for the benefit of all.' - The Economist 'By turns bawdy, sweary
and irreverent, this book . . . is a fascinating look at how
centuries of slang came to inform all aspects of social life, how
it was used, and how much of it still lingers.' History Revealed
Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it
represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions,
and intoxication: drink and drugs. Slang does not do kind. It's
about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults
that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. Caring, sharing and
compassion? Not at this address. There are over 10,000 terms
focusing on sex, but love? Not one. Jonathon Green, aka 'Mr Slang',
has drawn on the 600,000-plus citations that make up his
magisterial Green's Dictionary of Slang (published 2010, now online
at www.greensdictofslang.com) to tell some of slang's most
entertaining stories. Categories range from The Body to Pulp
Diction, via multi-cultural London English and pun-tastic gems.
Mostly gazing up from the gutter, slang, perhaps surprisingly, also
embraces the stars. These stories may look at drunken sailors,
dubious doctors, and a shelf of dangerously potent cocktails, but
slang does class acts as well. None more so than Shakespeare.
Devotee of the double entendre, master of the pun, first to put
nearly 300 slang terms in print. 'Shakespeare, uses, at my count,
just over five hundred "slang" terms, of which 277 are currently
the first recorded use of a given term. Among these are the beast
with two backs, every mother's son, fat-headed, heifer (for woman),
pickers and stealers (hands), small beer (insignificant matters),
what the dickens, and many more.' http://jonathongreen.co.uk
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