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Title: The Dictionary of American Slang by Robert L. Chapman ISBN: 006270107X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: February, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89
Rating: 5
Summary: Great reference and fun to read
Comment: One of the best lexicons I have on slang. It lists uses of the word and the authors as well as the when. The best part of it is that it's fun just to read it as well as usefull. It's not all inclusive by any means, I've failed to find a few of the words that I've looked for in it. But for the listings are great. I can't wait to see the next edition and to see what's been added.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great reference for non-native American speakers
Comment: The book seems not as "eduactional" as other heritage or historical dictionaries proclaimed to be but it is really of great help to a non-native American speaker, like me, who from Taiwan to get indepth of American ways of life. Whenever I run across an expression in American movies or TV sit-coms, not very often I fail to get the satisfactory explanation with the detailed notes and usages. Therefore I picked up expressions such as: refrigerator mother, fag, net-sex, digital sex and so forth, that frequently used in American movie lines or even in real life but taken to be the "taboo words" in English-Chinese dictionary. Slangs have no any color of offensivenss but depends on how people use them. It is a pity for the international lanuages learners if they think the slang is not good enough to pick up. Once you have a command of slang, you will be really into lives of slang users
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource
Comment: This dictionary is an absolute must-have for every writer, fiction or nonfiction. We haven't found a better slang dictionary yet. It has virtually all the slang words in there, words that you just won't find anywhere else. One of the very nice and helpful features is that it tells you in what year the word was used first and susequently, and in which publication (book or newspaper, etc.), and how the meaning changed over the course of the decades. The dictionary also has sentence examples on how the word was used, e.g. in which context, so you know exactly when and how to use it in your applications. It's just very interesting to find out the original meaning and usage of certain slang words and to enrich your own vocabulary. We highly recommend it!
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Title: The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer ISBN: 039572774X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Dictionary of American Idioms by Adam Makkai, Maxine Tull Boatner, J. E. Gates ISBN: 0812012488 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: NTC's Dictionary of Everyday American English Expressions by Richard A. Spears, Betty J. Birner, Steven R. Kleinedler ISBN: 0844257796 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Forbidden American English: Taboo American English by Richard A. Spears ISBN: 0844204560 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A., Ph.D. Spears ISBN: 0844204625 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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