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Thus, while the core of entries have been kept in place, new research has ensured that many aspects, whether dating, definitions or etymologies, have been notably improved. Captain Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London, 1931) Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld (London, 1949) Jonathan Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Slang (London, 1998) Abbreviations. These three massive and handsomely produced volumes constitute the chef doeuvre of their editor Jonathon Green, who has been collecting slang since 1980 and ha We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website.By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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Jonathon's research has not only uncovered many thousands of new slang words and expressions (12,000 of which will appear in CDS2), but has also enabled him to make a myriad improvements to the existing dictionary text. The full fruits of this research will appear in due course in a vast multi-volume publication but its first fruits can be seen in Cassell's Dictionary of Slang: 2nd edition (CDS2).
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The research has thrown up some fascinating results - not least the revelation that much of the slang lexicon is far older than scholars have been hitherto aware.
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This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard. With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998.