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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries$
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Julie Coleman

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199567256

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567256.001.0001

Dictionaries of British Slang

Chapter:
(p. 97 ) Three: Dictionaries of British Slang
Source:
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author(s):

Coleman Julie

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567256.003.0004

Putting aside Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, rhyming slang dominates the production of British slang glossaries during this period. The dictionaries are often nostalgic accounts of simpler times, and use humour to express anxieties about issues such as immigration and women's liberation. Links between rhyming slang and the entertainment industries are clear in several of the glossaries produced.

Keywords:   British slang, rhyming slang, William Freeman, Arthur Phythian

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