City in slang : New York life and popular speech, The
Americanisms City and town life English language Popular culture New York (N.Y.) Anglais (Langue) Vie urbaine Language and languages LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Engels Slang (taal) sähkökirjat
Oxford University Press
1993
EISBN 9781280527692
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.
