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Published by Oxford University Press, 1993
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- Title
- The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech
- Author
- Allen, Irving Lewis
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195075919
- ISBN 13
- 9780195075915
Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.
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About the Author
About the Author:
Irving Lewis Allen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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