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Décharné, Max, author.
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English language -- Slang.
English language -- Slang -- History.
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Vulgar tongues : an ...
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Vulgar tongues : an alternative history of English slang / Max Décharné.
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Décharné, Max, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Subjects
English language -- Slang.
English language -- Slang -- History.
ISBN:
9781681774640 (hardcover) :
168177464X (hardcover) :
Description:
388 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Contents:
The mark of a decadent mind -- Vagabond speech and rogue's Latin -- The beast with two backs -- The oldest profession -- This bag of bones -- Polari missiles -- Here's to crime -- Tails you booze -- High as a kite -- Dig that sound -- It takes a record company with millions to push us forward -- Burn baby burn -- Uniform patterns of speech -- The last word.
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Décharné traces the colorful history of slang, from Elizabethan highwaymen to the rap and hip-hop of today. He shows how meanings change over years; introduces us to flying aces, pickpockets, and carnival geeks who have left their impression on our language; and shows how slang leaks into the mainstream to infuse language with vitality.
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Aina Haina Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library
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