Sources used in the dictionary are generally included in the bibliography if they are cited three or more times there is limited coverage of sources cited fewer than three times. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'slang.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Green’s Dictionary of Slang is accompanied by a non-exhaustive bibliography of over 9,000 slang sources. 2023 What was once a niche piece of internet slang now populates international headlines and is a frequent topic in discussions about gender, misogyny, violence and extremism. The New Yorker, 10 July 2022 Trying to keep up with all the latest slang on social media is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. Vulture, 14 July 2022 Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang. 2022 If the film, which comes from theater director Carrie Cracknell and screenwriters Ron Bass (My Best Friend’s Wedding) and Alice Victoria Winslow, were committed to contrasting its historical setting with anachronistic slang, that would at least have been a choice. Other popular idioms included a bit of ‘argy bargy’ and referring to something easy as a ‘piece of cake’. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Aug. 2022 This obit contains some slang, circa 1940. 2021 The conversations were usually coded - sometimes carefully, but often just filtered through inside jokes, atrocious spelling and doper slang. 2022 In creating the remake, which received strong reviews and is considered an Oscar contender despite its disappointing box office opening, the filmmakers did consult multiple Puerto Rican experts on its historical accuracy, translations, dialects and period-specific slang. Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 17 Aug. Given that I am in no doubt that the future of reference publishing lies in digital form, it is my intention to place both these books on line in the near future.Noun Amoura Monroe, a 20-year-old living in Los Angeles, contends that a big part of the problem comes when the language is wrongly attributed to Gen Z lingo, stan culture or internet slang. For those who prefer something less academic, I published the Chambers Slang Dictionary, a single volume book, in 2008. The book covers all anglophone countries and its timeline stretches from around 1500 up to the present day. My slang work has reached its climax, but I trust not its end, with the publication in 2010 of Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three volume, 6,200-page dictionary ‘on historical principles’ offering some 110,000 words and phrases, backed up by around 410,000 citations or usage examples. Members of Gen Z are using a slew of new terms, such as 'situationship' and 'rizz.' Here are 16 slang terms, what they mean, and how to use them properly. As a freelancer I have broadcast regularly on the radio, made appearances on TV, including a 30-minute study of slang in 1996, and and written columns both for academic journals and for the Erotic Review. Among other non-slang titles have been three dictionaries of occupational jargon, a narrative history of the Sixties, a book on cannabis, and an encyclopedia of censorship. I have also published three oral histories: one on the hippie Sixties, one on first generation immigrants to the UK and one on the sexual revolution and its development. I have been publishing books since the mid-1970s, spending the next decade putting together a number of dictionaries of quotations, before I moved into what remains my primary interest, slang. After working on my university newspaper I joined the London ‘underground press’ in 1969, working for most of the then available titles, such as Friends, IT and Oz. I have also written a history of lexicography. I am a lexicographer, that is a dictionary maker, specialising in slang, about which I have been compiling dictionaries, writing and broadcasting since 1984. Greens Dictionary of Slang ( GDoS) is a multivolume dictionary defining and giving the history of English slang from around the Early Modern English period to the present day written by Jonathon Green. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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