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A Dictionary of English Rhyming Slangs

By Terry Victor , Antonio Lillo

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2017
ISBN
3110529289, 9783110529289
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15396301 bytes)
Series
Topics in English Linguistics 98
Edition
1
Pages
1358\1389
Time added
2017-11-06 12:39:11
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Description

The Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of rhyming slangs in the anglophone world. With a scope ranging from the 1830s to the current decade, this prodigious collection of over 9,000 headwords reveals the dialects and diverse forms of discourse where this engaging and surprising subset of lexis thrives. Multiple senses are listed chronologically etymologies, commentaries and citations support each usage.

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