New York Life and Popular Speech
Allen, Irving Lewis
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Paperback
316 pages
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Published: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0195092651
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.
