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1.  Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] / Farmer, John S.
   The Project Gutenberg EBook of Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes ... and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] Author: John S. Farmer Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8466] [Yes  details...
   • creator(s) - Farmer, John S.
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   • subject(s) - lol; tol; stanza; pierce egan; tol lol; fake away; slang; ken; rum; lol lol; beggar; jack; beggar; ken; jack; stanza; slang; tol lol; tol; lol lol; rum; pierce egan; lol; fake away;
   • title - Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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2.  How to Speak and Write Correctly / Devlin, Joseph
   SUGGESTIONS How to write. What to write. Correct speaking and speakers. CHAPTER XI SLANG Origin. American slang. Foreign slang. CHAPTER XII WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS Qualification. Appropriate subjects ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Devlin, Joseph
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   • subject(s) - verb; slang; plural; sentence; tense sing; plural; tense sing; verb; sentence; slang;
   • title - How to Speak and Write Correctly
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3.  The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor / Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959
   once and for all, both by plano-inductive and precoordinate systems of logic, the Status of Slang. What position does Slang occupy in the thought of the world? Let us turn to Zoology for an answer. No traces of Slang may ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959
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   • subject(s) - pansy; car; sonnets; gill; conductor; slang; smith; grip; fare; hart; smith; fare; car; sonnets; gill; hart; grip; slang; pansy; conductor;
   • title - The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
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4.  The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum / Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959
   of the Century had grown dilute. This adjuvant strain is found in the enthusiasm of Slang. Slowly its rhetorical ... and diction, and now it is strong enough to assault the very syntax of our Anglo-Saxon tongue.[*] Slang  details...
   • creator(s) - Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959
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   • subject(s) - mame; murphy; hoodlum; sonnets; slang; irwin; sonnet; willie; hart; willie; irwin; hoodlum; hart; slang; murphy; mame; sonnets; sonnet;
   • title - The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum
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5.  How To Write A Blackwood Article / Poe, Edgar Allen
   ," another the "Examiner" and a third a "Culley's New Compendium of Slang-Whang." Mr. B. merely cuts out and intersperses. It is soon done- nothing but "Examiner," "Slang-Whang," and "Times"- then "Times," "Slang ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Poe, Edgar Allen
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   • subject(s) - zenobia; moneypenny; blackwood; snobbs; psyche; whang; piquant; turnip; chicken; slang; article; greek; sensations; tone; butter; bone; madam; latin; genuine; american literature; latin; butter; sensations; snobbs; piquant; madam; chicken; tone; psyche; greek; slang; whang; bone; turnip; blackwood; zenobia; article; genuine; moneypenny; american literature;
   • title - How To Write A Blackwood Article
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6.  On the opposite sides of the continuum: Standard British English and Cockney. A Historical Outline of the Parallel Developments of the Two Varieties / Matteo Santipolo
   of its image in literature through time and of the origin and main features of its rhyming slang are also ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Matteo Santipolo
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   • source: Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online
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   • title - On the opposite sides of the continuum: Standard British English and Cockney. A Historical Outline of the Parallel Developments of the Two Varieties
   • type - article
7.  Character Of Charles Brown / Keats, John
   he would oft-times feast on gilliflowers rare. III. The slang of cities ...  details...
   • creator(s) - Keats, John
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   • subject(s) - cheek; english literature; english literature; cheek;
   • title - Character Of Charles Brown
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8.  The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 / Various
   slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. This document (the ... * [7]A Few Terms: Of Slang, Jargon and Techspeak * [8]Revision History: How the File came  details...
   • creator(s) - Various
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   • subject(s) - jarg; htm; metasyntactic variable; jargon lexicon; among hackers; htm unix; htm usenet; metasyntactic variable; htm usenet; jargon lexicon; among hackers; htm unix; htm; jarg;
   • title - The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
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9.  The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 / Various
   =========# This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition ... : ================= This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though  details...
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   • subject(s) - unix; hackers; hacker; program; software; system; among hackers; code; metasyntactic variable; metasyntactic variable; program; code; among hackers; system; unix; software; hacker; hackers;
   • title - The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992
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10.  Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking / Bechtel, John Hendricks, 1841-
    , and other expressive adjectives, which constitute a kind of society slang. Overworked ... without proper authority. The chief sources of supply of the objectionable kind are the current slang  details...
    • creator(s) - Bechtel, John Hendricks, 1841-
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    • subject(s) - verb; plural; pronouns; incorrectly used; often incorrectly; sentence; singular; plural; verb; singular; sentence; often incorrectly; incorrectly used; pronouns;
    • title - Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking
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