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The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech

By Irving Lewis Allen

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1995
ISBN
0195092651, 9780195092653, 0195075919, 9780195075915
LCC
PE3101.N7 A45 1993
Open Library ID
OL1707857M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21032096 bytes)
Edition
Facsimile
Pages
320\320
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
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Description

The American urban scene, and in particular New Yorks, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present.

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