After a career of painstaking slang lexicography, here he wanders and observes as did the flaneur, unencumbered in the words of Cornelia Otis Skinner "by any obligation or sense of urgency." He looks up from his desk and tells us what it all means. Green's streets are found in the slang of the English-speaking world. The flaneur was a stroller, an urban spectator yet explorer, a maker of detached but aesthetically attuned observations. ISBN 978-0-19939814-0 onathon Green as expressed in The Vulgar Tongue is to slang as the flaneur was to the streets of nineteenth-century Paris. The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang by Jonathon Green. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America Dictionary Society of North America In Odd Job Man, Green proved himself a laconic, self-aware, and Tens of thousands of hours reading for citations led to a staggeringly thorough dictionary on historical principles. With publication of the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang in 2011, Jonathon Green produced what I, his competitor and colleague, believe to be the finest piece of slang lexicography in the English language. The Vulgar Tongue is Green's third book treating slang in four years, each of which illustrates a different dimension of Green.
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