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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:23 am
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:07 pm
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How about this?
"A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" 8th Edition
Macmillan, 1985 ISBN 0025949802
If it's too old, the author has compiled numerous other books in the
same vein like "Slang Today and Yesterday" ISBN 1406770248. It
includes English, Australian and American slang. Check for details at
Amazon.
Hope this helps.
David Bradley
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England during World War II (Wexford College Press, 2003).
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Connection (Tarbutton Press, 2006).
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:23:46 -0500, Jerry S <nospam_here DeleteThis @videotron.ca>
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>Hi:
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>Could any of you suggest recent (say last 5-10 years) British books with
>lots of slang, esp the one used by university and high-school students,
>but not only?
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>The books shouldn't necessarily be good, but it could help:-)
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>Thanks.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:08 pm
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On Feb 20, 2:25 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address
<bo....DeleteThis@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The most recent one I've read that made heavy use of it was Irvine
> Welsh's "Trainspotting" but there will be a lot more in that vein.
Thanks, that one I have and still need to read:-)
> Alan Warner's new book might be a start, I haven't read it. I found
> "Morven Callar" rather a slog to get through.
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> There is a lot of recent fiction based around the lives of people
> working in offices in London which uses a fair bit of middle-class
> occupational argot (Steven Lukes's "Who Moved My BlackBerry?" etc).
Thanks.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:13 pm
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David Bradley wrote:
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> "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" 8th Edition
> Macmillan, 1985 ISBN 0025949802
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I am looking for books **using** British
slang.
I have Jonathon Green's slang dictionary and it seems a quite good one
to me, it's just I don't come upon those words frequently enough.
Thanks,
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:47 pm
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<Marius.Hancu.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:49b8c014-7e8f-49d3-93a8-1fbda820ae83@q33g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 20, 2:25 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address
> <bo....RemoveThis@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>> The most recent one I've read that made heavy use of it was Irvine
>> Welsh's "Trainspotting" but there will be a lot more in that vein.
>
> Thanks, that one I have and still need to read:-)
>
>> Alan Warner's new book might be a start, I haven't read it. I found
>> "Morven Callar" rather a slog to get through.
>>
>> There is a lot of recent fiction based around the lives of people
>> working in offices in London which uses a fair bit of middle-class
>> occupational argot (Steven Lukes's "Who Moved My BlackBerry?" etc).
>
> Thanks.
> Jerry
You could take a look at _THE PECULIAR MEMORIES OF THOMAS PENMAN_ by Bruce
Robinson it was first published in 1998 so it just about meets your
criteria.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:25 pm
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>> Could any of you suggest recent (say last 5-10 years) British books
>> with lots of slang, esp the one used by university and high-school
>> students, but not only?
> How about this?
> "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" 8th Edition
> Macmillan, 1985 ISBN 0025949802
I suspect he was after books that *use* it.
The most recent one I've read that made heavy use of it was Irvine
Welsh's "Trainspotting" but there will be a lot more in that vein.
Alan Warner's new book might be a start, I haven't read it. I found
"Morven Callar" rather a slog to get through.
There is a lot of recent fiction based around the lives of people
working in offices in London which uses a fair bit of middle-class
occupational argot (Steven Lukes's "Who Moved My BlackBerry?" etc).
It's hard for me to work up an interest in novels about a class of
people I'd like to see lined up and shot.
==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:45 am
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On Feb 20, 10:23 am, Jerry S <nospam_h... DeleteThis @videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hi:
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> Could any of you suggest recent (say last 5-10 years) British books with
> lots of slang, esp the one used by university and high-school students,
> but not only?
>
> The books shouldn't necessarily be good, but it could help:-)
>
> Thanks.
> Jerry
LONDONISTAN.. can't recall the author's name, though.
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