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100			_aWeintraub, Jessica,
245		0	_aFrom AOK to OZ: The Historical Dictionary of American Slang. _cJessica Weintraub and Joseph M. Romero.
260			_bHumanities, _c2004.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2005. _nArticle 11, _pGlobal Issues, _x1522-3221;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.
500			_aOriginally Published: From AOK to OZ: The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, March/April 2004; pp. 15-23.
520			_a"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.
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aAuthors
650			_aEncyclopedias and dictionaries
650			_aEnglish language _xIdioms
650			_aEnglish language _xSlang
650			_aIdioms
650			_aLanguage and languages in literature
650			_aLexicographers
650			_aSlang
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2005, _pGlobal Issues. _x1522-3221;
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999			_c36289 _d36289