'No previous work of lexicography has ever stood as such a monument to mankind's baseness and wilful disinclination to self-improve'
'Multi-faceted and unflinching'
'Green's astonishing, peerless collage ... is the entire anglophone world unmediated'
'[Green] belongs to a rare pantheon'
(Jonathan Meades, The Evening Standard 2010-11-18)
'the reference work of the vulgar tongue to which all others must now be referred [...] he has now exhibited English slang in more detail than any lexicographer before him'
(Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Telegraph 2010-10-25)
'... It's not hyperbolic to suggest that it's the OED of slang'
(Michael Quinion, World Wide Words.com 2010-11-27)
'After more than a decade's labour, Jonathon Green, lexicographer of the subversive, has produced as fine a three-volume dictionary of slang as you would desire to piss upon (1700: phrase meaning "excellent, first-rate").'
(Steven Poole, The Guardian 2010-12-18)
' ... any language lover will find this as compelling a read as a thriller ... The dictionary is a stupendous achievement, in range, meticulous scholarship, and not least enterainment value'
(Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times 2010-12-19)
'this is the sort of book that, even when examined for a specific purpose, invites sustained perusal'
(Henry Hitchings, Financial Times 2010-12-30)
'A magnificent work of scholarship'
(Colin MacCabe, The New Statesman 2011-01-03)
'The range of sources is breathtaking'
(James Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement 2011-02-02)
'a wonderfully politically incorrect source of education and entertainment'
(Prof. Chris Williams, walesonline.co.uk 2011-05-29)
'This is the most significant dictionary of slang that has ever been produced ... Get it.'
(Australian Book Review 2011-07-01)
'With the historical context and sample sentences, Green's shows the depth and breadth of slang as we've never seen it. It is now the number one authority on slang--for etymology, appropriateness, and social context. If words are your trade, you just don't have a full toolbox without Green's'
(www.copyediting.com 2011-08-16)
**** WINNER OF THE 2012 DARTMOUTH MEDAL, RECOGNISING THE MOST OUTSTANDING REFERENCE WORK OF THE YEAR ****
(American Library Association 2011-01-24)
"Jonathan Green's is a dictionary for the ages, as special a catalogue of word-biographies as James Murray himself might have created, and likely to endure as long as the OED...To praise another way: Green's dictionary is, in short, the dog's bollocks."
(New York Review of Books 2012-03-08)
'Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been ... or is ever likely to be'
(Julie Coleman, Journal of English Language and Linguistics 2012-03-01)
'A treasure trove of a dictionary. Green's preface hits the nail on the head when he says that it is a work for anyone who is curious enough to open it. Dipping in and out of these three volumes has been a treat and through this process I have definitely increased my vocabulary.'
(The Linguist 2012-08-21)
