By Julie Coleman
ISBN-10: 0199549370
ISBN-13: 9780199549375
describes the origins of phrases and words and explores their heritage. through copious instance she exhibits how they solid gentle on way of life around the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in ny and infantrymen struggling with within the Boer and primary global Wars - as
well as at the operations of the narcotics exchange and the leisure company and the lives of these attending American faculties and British public schools.
The slang lexicographers have been a colorful bunch. these featured during this booklet contain spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, newshounds, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, law enforcement officials, and a serial bigamist. One supplied the foundation for Robert Lewis Stevenson's lengthy John Silver. one other used to be allegedly killed by means of a beef pie.
Julie Coleman's account will curiosity historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the legal underworld.
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