Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 (of 7) : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
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Henley's monumental dictionary catalogs three centuries of underworld speech, slang, and cant—the language of people history ignores, proving that how the powerless spoke mattered as much as how rulers wrote.
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 (of 7) : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc. is an ebook by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). This edition runs to roughly 601 pages, about 12 hours of reading at a typical pace.
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