Origin of slang terms
[DOC File]10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era
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Slang, as noted, pooh-poohs (10) political correctness and has no time for euphemism, however justified, and while mental-health professionals might deplore the fact, lists a wide range of terms it defines as "mad". The over-riding image is "not all there".
[DOC File]A 19th Century Slang Dictionary - Mess No. 1
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These are located at the end of the regular slang dictionary under a separate heading. Many of these slang terms were taken from a book entitled “Writing for the 19th Century: A Writers Guide for all things Victorian”. It is filled with wonderful information regarding slang terms and other wonderful details of …
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Slang can be contrasted with jargon (technical language of occupational or other groups) and with argot or cant (secret vocabulary of underworld groups), but the borderlines separating these categories from slang are greatly blurred, and some writers use the terms cant, argot, and jargon in a general way to include all the foregoing meanings /13/.
[DOC File]From slang to slanguage: a description based on teenage talk
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The origin of the word slang is regarded as ‘uncertain’ or ‘unknown’ by most linguists and lexicographers. One notable exception is Skeat, the lexicographer behind A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (1965: 490), who claims that slang (‘vulgar language’) is of Scandinavian origin and a derivation of Icelandic ...
[DOC File]Introduction - University of Leicester
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For a slang dictionary this is a difficult prospect, because slang is generally not written down. It is, as I have discussed, a spoken form of communication. This means that tracing a word and its meaning back to its origin is sometimes impossible for slang terms.
[DOC File]Slang
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Slang, then, is produced largely by social forces rather than by an individual speaker or writer who, single-handed (like Horace Walpole, who coined "serendipity" more than 200 years ago), creates and establishes a word in the language. This is one reason why it is difficult to determine the origin of slang terms. 2.4 Creators of slang
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