Review
"A landmark publication, at one stroke sweeping its predecessors into the shade . . . It is one of those rare books that prompts the realization that you have never seen the subject in such sharp focus before."
--John A. Simpson, Chief Editor, "Oxford English Dictionary"
"A monumental book."
--"The New York Times"
"Will do for nonstandard English what the "Oxford English Dictionary" did for the whole language."
--William Safire
"No one has ever created a scholarly work that is more fun."
--"Newsweek"
"The funniest . . . work of profound lexicographical slang-scholarship ever published . . . The book belongs on every patriotice coffee table."
--Nicholson Baker, "The New Review of Books"
"A browser's joy . . . an awesome tribute to the American popular imagination."
--"Boston Globe"
Synopsis
A collection of American slang which includes both present-day and historical terms.
