Irving Lewis Allen provides an insightful history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. Anecdotal and at times analytical, this book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.
| ISBN: | 9780195092653 |
| Publication date: | 20th April 1995 |
| Author: | Irving Lewis Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut Allen |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 316 pages |
| Genres: |
Dialect, slang and jargon |