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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author(s): Eric Partridge (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24 May 1984
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 1432 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415065682
- ISBN-13: 9780415065689
Book Description
The definitive work on slang and unconventional English, this edition is fully revised and updated by Paul Beale and includes some 500 new entries. The dictionary gives a fully documented account of English slang over four centuries and will entertain and inform all lovers of the English language.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`Massive and endlessly fascinating.’ – Paul Davies, Mail on Sunday
`Endlessly fascinating: quirkish, illuminating, and instructive. To browse in it is like eating peanuts: addictive to the extreme. If one must limit an appraisal of Partridge’s torrential work to but one adjective, the choice is a breeze: stupendous.’ – Leo Rosten, Encounter
`Paul Beale’s eighth edition preserves the emphasis and lightly worn pedantry of earlier editions and enhances the work’s usefulness with a single alphabetical listing, more systematic internal arrangement of entries, and of course more recent material.’ – The Year’s Work in English Studies
