From AOK to OZ: The Historical Dictionary of American Slang. Jessica Weintraub and Joseph M. Romero.
by Weintraub, Jessica; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 11Global Issues. Publisher: Humanities, 2004ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Authors | Encyclopedias and dictionaries | English language -- Idioms | English language -- Slang | Idioms | Language and languages in literature | Lexicographers | SlangDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Throughout the centuries, writers have taken opposing stands on the slang question. Samuel Johnson thought it would destroy the English language, and Daniel Defoe and Noah Webster condemned it; whereas Chaucer uses two hundred epithets in The Canterbury Tales, and Walt Whitman defends it in his 1888 essay 'Slang in America.' Two language scholars, Jonathan Lighter and Jesse Sheidlower, have taken on the task of championing the much-maligned idiom. The editors are tracing the history of American slang from colonial days to the present." (HUMANITIES) This article highlights the editors' work. A sidebar on the process of dictionary writing is included.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: From AOK to OZ: The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, March/April 2004; pp. 15-23.
"Throughout the centuries, writers have taken opposing stands on the slang question. Samuel Johnson thought it would destroy the English language, and Daniel Defoe and Noah Webster condemned it; whereas Chaucer uses two hundred epithets in The Canterbury Tales, and Walt Whitman defends it in his 1888 essay 'Slang in America.' Two language scholars, Jonathan Lighter and Jesse Sheidlower, have taken on the task of championing the much-maligned idiom. The editors are tracing the history of American slang from colonial days to the present." (HUMANITIES) This article highlights the editors' work. A sidebar on the process of dictionary writing is included.
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