Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon...
Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon...
Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English / Janet Sorensen.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/2989
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English
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x, 334 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2017]
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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, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published wor...
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Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English / Janet Sorensen.
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G 2017/2989
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74VKVLLaM3GA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVLLaM3GA
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ISBN
9780691169026 hardcover
0691169020 hardcover
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422
MMS ID
991024109617302626
