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Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English

Sorensen, Janet, author

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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 works presented the supposed lexicons of the 'common people' and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from 'The New Canting Dictionary' to Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others\"--Front jacket flap.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 1700-1799 / English language Etymology. / English language 18th century. / English language Slang. / English language.
• ISBN: 9780691169026

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PE1574.S67 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE