![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It received a variety of gratifyingly appreciative reviews but while a number of these termed it my 'life's work', the reality is that my life continues and so does the work. He asked me to post the following appeal on Language Log, responses to which should be directed to him (email address below).Īround twelve months ago Chambers/Hodder in the UK published my 3-volume, 6,200-page dictionary of 500 hundred years of worldwide anglophone slang: Green's Dictionary of Slang. Now, at year's end, it turns out that Green's plan to make GDoS available online has run into some trouble. In the meantime, his monument to the inventiveness of speakers from Auckland to Oakland takes its place as the pièce de résistance of English slang studies. Green plans to put his dictionary online for continuous revision, which is indeed the direction that many major reference works (including the O.E.D.) are now taking. It's a never-ending challenge to keep up with the latest developments in the world of slang, but that is the lexicographer’s lot. In the Apissue of the New York Times Book Review, I appraised Jonathon Green's wonderfully comprehensive three-volume reference work, Green's Dictionary of Slang (GDoS to its friends). ![]()
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