A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues
John Stephen Farmer
- Mangaka
- John Stephen Farmer
- First published
- 1905
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Published in 1905, this volume serves as a condensed version of the monumental seven-volume set Slang and Its Analogues, compiled by John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley between 1890 and 1904. The original work was a pioneering, albeit controversial, attempt to catalog the unofficial language of the English-speaking world, documenting terminology that had long been excluded from conventional lexicography due to its vulgarity or underworld associations.
Farmer, a lexicographer and occultist, aimed to provide a comprehensive historical and etymological record of non-standard English. By focusing on the colloquial and the illicit, the work offered an invaluable, if gritty, glimpse into social history. The abridged version was designed to make this dense, scholarly research more accessible to a broader audience, maintaining the essential findings of the original exhaustive project while stripping away the more esoteric academic apparatus.
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