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The City in Slang

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The City

in Slang

New York Life and Popular Speech

Irving Lewis Allen

Oxford University Press

New York

Oxford

With very few exceptions, indeed, slang terms are

sociologically valuable and historically revealing,

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First published in 1993 by Oxford University Press, Inc.,

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First issued as an Ocford University Press paperback, 1995

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Allen, Irving L.

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

p. cm Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-19-507591-9

ISBN 0-19-509265-1 (PBK.)

1. English language— Spoken English — New York {N.Y.)

2. English language — Social aspects — New York (N.Y.)

3. New York (N.Y.) — Social life and customs,

4. English language — New York (N.Y.) — Slang.

5. New York {N.Y.) — Popular culture.

6. City and town life — Terminology.

7. Americanisms — New York (N.Y.)

I. Title. PE3IOI.N7A45 1993

4Z7 .97471— dc20 92-9377

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