Автор: Hotten, Jon Название: Elements of cricket ISBN: 0008328331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008328337 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 17600.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. `Hotten is not just good, he is one of the best` Cricketer
The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal was originally published as: Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten in 1859.
The first edition was published in 1859, with the full title and subtitle: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: used at the present day in the streets of London, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the houses of Parliament, the dens of St. Giles, and the palaces of St. James: preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language: with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers.
This publication includes criminal slang, back slang, rhyming slang, and other types of slang. Its author, Hotten, included histories of some slangs (back slang and rhyming slang), a detailed bibliography, and a noted definition: Slang represents that evanescent, vulgar language, ever changing with fashion and taste, ... spoken by persons in every grade of life, rich and poor, honest and dishonest ...
Slang is indulged in from a desire to appear familiar with life, gaiety, town-humour and with the transient nick names and street jokes of the day ... Slang is the language of street humour, of fast, high and low life ... Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding, and excitement, and artificial life. It is often full of the most pungent satire, and is always to the point. Without point Slang has no raison d'etre.
Hotten's work was arguably the most important work on swears since Francis Grose's 1785 Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Автор: Camden Hotten John Название: The Original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children s ISBN: 935386111X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353861117 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 35550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Автор: Hotten John Camden Название: A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words ISBN: 1979202834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781979202831 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 26730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. CANT and SLANG are universal and world-wide. Nearly every nation on the face of the globe, polite and barbarous, may be divided into two portions, the stationary and the wandering, the civilised and the uncivilised, the respectable and the scoundrel, -those who have fixed abodes and avail themselves of the refinements of civilisation, and those who go from place to place picking up a precarious livelihood by petty sales, begging, or theft. This peculiarity is to be observed amongst the heathen tribes of the southern hemisphere, as well as the oldest and most refined countries of Europe. As Mayhew very pertinently remarks, "it would appear, that not only are all races divisible into wanderers and settlers, but that each civilised or settled tribe has generally some wandering horde intermingled with, and in a measure preying upon it." In South Africa, the naked and miserable Hottentots are pestered by the still more abject Sonquas; and it may be some satisfaction for us to know that our old enemies at the Cape, the Kafirs, are troubled with a tribe of rascals called Fingoes, -the former term, we are informed by travellers, signifying beggars, and the latter wanderers and outcasts. In South America, and among the islands of the Pacific, matters are pretty much the same. Sleek and fat rascals, with not much inclination towards honesty, fatten, or rather fasten, like body insects, upon other rascals, who would be equally sleek and fat but for their vagabond dependents. Luckily for respectable persons, however, vagabonds, both at home and abroad, show certain outward peculiarities which distinguish them from the great mass of lawful people off whom they feed and fatten. Personal observation, and a little research into books, enable me to mark these external traits. The wandering races are remarkable for the development of the bones of the face, as the jaws, cheek-bones, &c., high crowned, stubborn-shaped heads, quick restless eyes, and hands nervously itching to be doing; for their love of gambling, -staking their very existence upon a single cast; for sensuality of all kinds; and for their use of a CANT language with which to conceal their designs and plunderings.
Автор: Hotten John Camden Название: The Slang Dictionary ISBN: 1547052279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781547052271 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 30910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
