Strange Vernaculars : How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0691210748
ISBN-13
9780691210742
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 8th, 2020
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
552 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.30 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalBritish & Irish historySocial & cultural history
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How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile 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, crimi
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