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The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
Language: en
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This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence a
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Julie Coleman
Categories: History
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The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to