Title The city in slang : New York life and popular speech / Irving Lewis Allen.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and indexes.
Summary	Irving Lewis Allen provides an insightful history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. Anecdotal and at times analytical, this book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.
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Subject	English language -- Spoken English -- New York (State) -- New York.
	English language -- Spoken English.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	English language -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
	English language -- Social aspects.
	English language -- Dialects -- New York (State) -- New York.
	English language -- Dialects.
	English language -- New York (State) -- New York -- Slang.
	English language.
	Slang.
	Americanisms -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Americanisms.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Languages.
	National Book Committee.
	Language and languages.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Popular culture.
Indexed Term	English language Slang
	New York (N.Y.)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Allen, Irving L., 1931- City in slang. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195075919 0195092651 (DLC) 92009377 (OCoLC)25550126
ISBN	1429406615 (electronic book)
	9781429406611 (electronic book)
	1280527692
	9781280527692
	9780195092653
	0195092651 (paperback)
	0195075919 (alkaline paper)