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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English Janet Sorensen
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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
Janet Sorensen
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period--less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, crimi
352 pages, 8 line illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 6, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691169026 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 242 × 28 mm · 648 g |
| Language | English |
