Dialect, slang and jargon

Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech.

In Always On, Naomi S.

Do you "e;know"e; that posh comes from an acronym meaning "e;port out, starboard home"e;?

Nancy C.

In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers.

Careful writers and speakers agree that cliches are generally to be avoided.

Careful writers and speakers agree that cliches are generally to be avoided.

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown.

This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects.

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects.

The study of comparative syntax in closely related languages has yielded valuable insights into syntactic phenomena--for example in the study of the Romance languages--yet little comparative work has been done on English dialects.

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "e;impossible language"e; since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules.

The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "e;Ebonics"e;, however the idea remains a mystery to most.

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages.

What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile?

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world.

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world.

This book is about language that is designed to mean what it does not seem to mean.

This book is about language that is designed to mean what it does not seem to mean.

The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia.

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant.

The third edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source covering every aspect of its wide-ranging field.

This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, utilizing the latest research from the Oxford Languages team to source them.

This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish.

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English.

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English.

Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech.

In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers.

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages.

The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "e;Ebonics"e;, however the idea remains a mystery to most.

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

From baby boomers with 'groovy' and 'yuppie,' to Generation X with 'whatever' and 'like,' each generation inevitably comes to use certain words that are particular to its unique time in history.

Are you a bobo or a wombat?

Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage.

'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in.

What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket?

Why do so many swear words involve sex, bodily functions and religion?