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Cassell's Rhyming Slang

Cassell's Rhyming Slang

by Graham Rawle (Illustrator), Graham Rawle (Illustrator), Jonathon Green (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

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Synopsis

The most important and comprehensive collection of rhyming slang ever published Lists, defines and explains over 3000 rhyming slang words and phrases Provides etymologies and dates of first use for all words and phrases 'Bilingual' approach allows the reader to 'learn' rhyming slang as well as look it up. Embellished with 20 collage illustrations by Graham Rawle, creator of The Guardian's Lost Consonants

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Cassell & Co.
Published: 16 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0304355135
ISBN 13: 9780304355136
Book Overview: Pointed, dry, witty and endlessly inventive, rhyming slang is probably held in greater popular affection than any other type of English slang. Jonathon Green's fascinating survey - the most detailed ever published on its subject - explores the history and diversity of this well-loved subset of unconventional English usage in three main sections: Introduction: a brief history of rhyming slang - from the language of 19th-century cockneys and their transported Australian cousins, to the jargon of contemporary drug and prison culture; The Dictionary: 3000 rhyming slang words and phrases defined and explained in standard English, with full etymologies and dates of first use. The Thesaurus: a thematic listing which translates basic English vocabulary into its rhyming slang equivalents, thereby enabling the reader to learn rhyming slang words and phrases for all occasions. This section is divided into a range of categories covering everything from emotions to bodily functions, from sex to food and from drugs to law and order.

Author Bio
Jonathon Green is Britain's leading lexicographer of slang. His many credits include the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Slang Down the Ages, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, The Cassell Dictionary of Slang (published to great acclaim in December 1998), and most recently, the best-selling Big Book of Filth, a survey of 6500 sex slang words and phrases. Jonathon Green lives in North London.