Books by John Camden Hotten
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words
by John Camden Hotten
No-one had ever written about slang in the way that Hotten did. His definition of slang is one of the best there is
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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
