The city in slang : New York life and popular speech /

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Author / Creator:	Allen, Irving L., 1931-2002.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	English language -- Spoken English -- New York (State) -- New York. English language -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York. English language -- Dialects -- New York (State) -- New York. English language -- New York (State) -- New York -- Slang. Americanisms -- New York (State) -- New York. Americanisms. English language -- Dialects. English language -- Slang. English language -- Social aspects. English language -- Spoken English. Language and languages. New York (N.Y.) -- Languages. New York (State) -- New York. Terminology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147572

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ISBN:	1429406615 9781429406611 1280527692 9781280527692 9780195075915 0195075919 9780195092653 0195092651 0195075919
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Allen, Irving L., 1931- City in slang. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195075919 0195092651

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