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Tony Thorne explores the teeming and ever-changing underworld of English, bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity, irreverance and anonymous wit from the linguistic front-line. This guide contains more than 6000 expressions and over 15000 definitions from the English-speaking world.
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"Thorne is a kind of slang detective, going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread." Daily Telegraph "As up-to-date a dictionary of 'strikingly informal' contemporary language as you are likely to find." www.mantex.co.uk/reviews
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Currently Director of the English Language Centre at King's College, London, Tony Thorne is an authority on language and culture, on which he has written and broadcast widely.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0747545944
- ISBN 13 9780747545941
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages448
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