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Author Cassidy, Daniel.

Title How the Irish invented slang : the secret language of the crossroads / Daniel Cassidy ; introduction by Peter Quinn.

Publication Info. Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2007.
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 Moore Stacks  PE2846 .C37 2007    Available  ---
Description xix, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Dedication and acknowledgements -- pt. 1 -- Introduction / Peter Quinn -- ch. 1. Foclóir Póca - a pocket dictionary -- ch. 2. Boliver of Brooklyn -- ch. 3. The sanas (etymology, secret knowledge) of slum -- ch. 4. The gangs of New York talk back in Irish -- ch. 5. Songs of the crossroad -- ch. 6. The sanas of Faro and Poker -- ch. 7. How the Irish invented dudes -- ch. 8. The sanas of jazz -- pt. 2 -- A dictionary of Irish-American vernacular -- Index.
Subject English language -- United States -- Slang.
English language.
United States.
Slang.
English language -- United States -- Slang -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Subject Irish language -- Influence on English.
Irish language -- Influence on English.
Americanisms -- History.
Americanisms.
History.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
ISBN 9781904859604
1904859607

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