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Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer by Jonathon Green (Hardcover, 2014)

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For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang - the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom - producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang, that have been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative ever compiled. In this fascinating memoir Green reveals that he first began collecting slang in the 1970s, noticing that the contemporary authorities (notably Eric Partridge) preferred the past to the present, unaware of the huge array of new slang being coined by the counter-culture. He ponders why he still does this strange, lonely job, exploring the satisfaction that can be gained by tracking down the first use of a term just encountered in one of the cheap dime novels he devours for research. The lexis leans towards pimping and prostitution, crime and imprisonment, violence and cruelty, drunken and drugged debauches- what does this say about the man who spends every day truffling for it? A fascinating look at how one man has built a lexis of 125,000 words that includes 1,740 words for sexual intercourse, 1,351 for the penis, 540 for defecation/urination, 247 for fat, 219 for vomiting and 180 for anal sex, Odd Job Man will delight all those who love the words that the conventional dictionaries leave out.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780224097581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183020260

Product Key Features

Author
Jonathon Green
Publication Name
Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Writing & Reading
Publication Year
2014
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
222mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
475g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Jonathon Green
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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