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Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary, to be published next month, contains more than 4,500 words for drinks, 4,000 for drugs, 2,400 for idiots and 634 for buttocks. It covers five centuries of language from the wrong side of the tracks, but it is the youngest entires that provide some of the the greatest amusement. A Giorgio Armani, for example, in rhyming slang is a sarnie and a squirrel-kisser is an environmentalist.
--Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph'Dr Johnson would have moaned with delight.'
--Andrew Marr, DAILY TELEGRAPH'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green.'
--Martin Amis, ExperienceReview
To winch the dictionary onto your knee and open its pages is like entering an orchard full of strange and wonderful fruit.
A mighty tome dedicated to language’s seedier denizens.
The most-acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson has every right
to blow off ("late 18th century: to boast, to brag". What did you
think?) as he wraps up a new edition of this most mind-bendingly
addictive guide to taboo talk.
Whether one trawls the pages of Green’s dictionary or merely glances at them,
rich discoveries are certain.
'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green'
Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary... contains more than 4,500 words for drink, 4,000
for drugs, 2,400 for idiots and 634 for buttocks.
It
covers five centuries of language from the wrong side of the tracks,
but it is the youngest entries that provide some of the greatest
amusement.
A Giorgio Armani, for example, in rhyming slang, is a sarnie and a squirrel-kisser is an environmentalist.
(Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph )Jonathon Green is the nation's indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a
tireless troweller in the slurry of the unsayable. His Cassell's
Dictionary of Slang (1998) and Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008) are
phenomenal compendia of "non-standard usages," ranging across the whole
lexicon of English bar-room coinages.
Previous praise for Jonathon Green's Slang Dictionary
'Magnificent... I felt quite pale after a while at the endless catalogue of things we do to each other.'
Previous praise for Jonathon Green's Slang Dictionary
'Dr Johnson would have moaned with delight.'
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