Weintraub, Jessica, <br/><br/>
From AOK to OZ: The Historical Dictionary of American Slang. 
Jessica Weintraub and Joseph M. Romero. 
 -  Humanities,  2004. 
 - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.  Article 11,  Global Issues,  1522-3221; .
<br/><br/> Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.  Originally Published: From AOK to OZ: The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, March/April 2004; pp. 15-23. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1522-3221; 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors<br/>Encyclopedias and dictionaries<br/>English language--Idioms<br/>English language--Slang<br/>Idioms<br/>Language and languages in literature<br/>Lexicographers<br/>Slang
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AC1.S5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>050