Books by Eric Partridge
Slang To-day and Yesterday
by Eric Partridge
Partridge was the leading English-language slang lexicographer of the 20th century. He was absolutely fascinated by cockney Englishmen
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The best books on Slang, recommended by Jonathon Green
It’s dirty, grubby and doubting. And us at our most real. The lexicographer takes us inside the world of “rough, truthful language” from rhyming slang and cant to the streets of Baltimore and an etymology of the f-word
