Collecting word books

We have spoken here of the collecting of dictionaries and of slang. I have
a mild mania for books of words--dictionaries, glossaries, collections of
proverbs and quotations, gazetteers, etc. I guess, I just take them as they
come--although I've sought out a few on occasion.

In last week's Jay's Journal on KCRW, Ricky Jay discusses his interest in
slang dictionaries, which might of interest to a few RCBers:

http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram_wrap.cgi?/jj/jj030724Sharps_and_Flats


William M. Klimon
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