Title Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Reference Room	PE2838 .O88 2003	Available	---
Talbott Reference	PE2838 .O88 2003	Available	---

Description	xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.
Contents	Introduction : a century's worth of old (and new) words -- 1900-1919 : Modern times -- The twenties : flappers and flaming youth -- The thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville -- The forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe -- The fifties : hipsters in Squaresville -- The sixties : getting with it -- The seventies : pet rocks and plumbers -- The eighties : tubular times -- The nineties : dot-comming into Y2K -- Afterword : good-bye to a great century.
Subject	English language -- United States -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
	English language.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Subject	English language -- 20th century -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	English language -- United States -- Slang -- Dictionaries.
	Slang.
Genre/Form	Dictionaries.
Subject	English language -- 20th century -- Slang -- Dictionaries.
	English language -- Obsolete words.
	English language -- Obsolete words.
	Americanisms.
	Americanisms.
Genre/Form	Dictionaries.
	Controlled vocabularies.
	Controlled vocabularies.
Added Title	Decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century
ISBN	0195161467 acid-free paper