The stories of slang

Green, Jonathon, 1948-2017

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Slang is language at its most human, focusing on sex, body parts and what they do, drink and drugs and wide-spectrum hedonism; it's also about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. For caring, sharing and compassion, it is necessary to look elsewhere because slang can't even spell them. There may be over 10,000 terms focusing on sex in one way or another, but love? Not one. The dictionary, it has been said, is just a novel out of order. Jonathon Green has drawn on his own database, or dictionary, of over 600,000 citations, to tell the wonderfully entertaining stories of slang, from its first, sixteenth-century collection to today.