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The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech
The City in Slang New York Life and Popular Speech
Author: Irving Lewis Allen
The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195092653
ISBN-10: 0195092651
Publication Date: 12/31/1994
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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