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Counterfeit Money
criminal justice language
criminal slang lexicon
Diamond Thieves
Dictionary
English Language
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Eric Partridge
etymology research
Flash Language
Flying Squad
historical criminal vocabulary research
historical linguistics
Jon Bee
Language of Crime
Lexicon Balatronicum
London Labour
London Poor
Marijuana Cigarette
National Police Gazette
Newgate's Account
Popular Science
Popular Science Monthly
Professional Thief
regional dialect studies
Rolf Boldrewood
Scotland Yard
Select Trials
Sessions Papers
Sing Sing
sociolinguistic analysis
Teenage Gangsters
Underworld
United States Secret Service
Vulgar Tongue
Writer's Digest
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138904477
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
