Dialect, slang and jargon

This book is not only intended for a general readership, but also for military researchers and historians who often find that they get lost in the huge and arcane raft of terminology employed by the army during the conflict.

With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today.

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

Al llarg d'aquestes pàgines es descriuen escenes de vida que prenen com a protagonista una paraula concreta, generalment ebrenca o particular d'alguna altra contrada.

What's ILL in one place can be WACK in another, or the same word can actually have TOTES different meanings.