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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume III: 1859-1936

Julie Coleman

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780199549375

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199549375.001.0001

International Slang Dictionaries of the 1880s and 1890s

Chapter:
(p. 35 ) Two: International Slang Dictionaries of the 1880s and 1890s
Source:
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author(s):

Julie Coleman (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199549375.003.0003

This chapter examines three dictionaries combining English slang with other languages and slangs. Baumann's Londinismen presents English slang to a German-speaking audience; Barrère's Argot and Slang presents French slang for an English-speaking audience, with English slang synonyms; Barrère and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant attempts to cover American and Australian slang as well as British.

Keywords:   Baumann, Barrère, Leland, dictionary, slang, cant, 19th century, England, Victorian

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