The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

Includes words and phrases from United States history and from such current subcultures as technology and the Internet, the media, recent immigrants, and fashio

Now in its second edition, The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French, as use

From its first edition the purpose of Walford has been to identify and evaluate the widest possible range of reference materials. No rigid definition of referen

This book has achieved international recognition as a reference tool and a "one-stop" daily information source. This new edition features many topics, and is in

This single-volume reference offers a practical, evaluative guide to the main general dictionaries of the world's languages. It provides selective, critical ann

**** The British counterpart to Sheehy (in which it is recommended--and vice versa), distributed in the US by Unipub. Volume 3 completes the 5th edition with 8,