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Slang : The People's Poetry
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Slang : The People's Poetry Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Adams, Michael

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A passionate defense of slang, jargon, argot, and other forms of nonstandard English, this marvelous volume is full of amusing and even astonishing examples of all sorts of slang.

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  • Title Slang : The People's Poetry
  • Author Adams, Michael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford, England
  • Date 2009-04-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8092806-75
  • ISBN 9780195314632 / 0195314638
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.72 x 0.84 in (21.64 x 14.53 x 2.13 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, English language - Slang
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008028923
  • Dewey Decimal Code 427.09

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  • Library Journal, 08/15/2009, Page 80

About the author

Michael Adams teaches English language and literature at Indiana University. He is the author of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon and editor of From Elvish to Klingon. For several years, he was editor of Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. He is currently editor of the journal American Speech.