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...gratitude, but the big fellow said in English, "Thank you, sir, the rum is excellent...Wagner wasnt the best ball-player in the world. From New York he had gone to London...in the Hotel Russell. Just before the war he went home to Germany to see his parents, the war came and he was conscripted.

...edition of the monumental A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1984) and the new material...Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1989), although articles...the English-speaking world. Items originating in...

...tologist worked over her entire body look- ing for moles. EXCELLENCE awesome exclam. Great!; Excellent! (Usually Awesome! Standard English, but used often in slang.) 0 You own that gorgeous hog? Awesome! D Awesome! Im impressed.

idea itself was conceived inside the War Office. But Derby did discuss such a proposal with Kitchener on 24 August 1914. P. Simkins, Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914 16 Manchester, 1988 , p. 83. 16 K...Gwynne to the Countess of Bathurst 1914 1918 London, 1988 , p. 160. 17 Grieves...24 C. a C. Repington, The First World War 1914 1918 , vol. 1 London, 1920...

...Data Gallagher, Jean, 1962- The world wars through the female gaze / Jean Gallagher...references and index. 1. World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American. 2. World War, 1914-1918--Pictorial works. 3. World...

...Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies...Hong Kong Cantonese is a language that invents, savors, and discards slang at an ever increasing...the regional dialects/languages of Chinese, Cantonese...system of writing. Thus slang can be captured for posterity...throughout the Chinese world, written Cantonese enjoys...indicate derivation from English, though the summary of...is surely better for a dictionary to err on the side of...certainly many more. Dictionaries are so difficult to create...

Portals World War I Experience, 1915-1918. by Arnold...in the Royal Flying Corps before the war, had the observers cockpit in front...in aerial combat when on August 25, 1914 he forced down a German Taube by flying...James Thomas Byford McCudden (1895-1918) afterwards an outstanding fighter pilot...Collision of Empires: Britain in Three Wars, 1793-1945 (1992), A Muse of Fire: Literature, Art, and War (1998), Arnhem (2001), and Body...Power History, "Bombing and the Air War on the Italian Front, 1915-1918...

...their language. Also a Boer War version in Robson. (36...a digger who `wastes bad language on a Belgian. See also chapter...Division, London, nd (1918). Come in Spinner., p...in Spinner p. 186 (40) Dictionary..., p. 554-5 prints...others and claims for Boer War origin. (41) See Overland...point, has a very similar narrative structure to the `whinger...vol. I no. 6, 8 Sept 1918, p. 4. (45) Field, op. cit., p. 19. (World War 2 version -- Western...

...history that the First World War formed or, from...significantly in the combat narratives, and then with increasing...public reception of the war novels and the films...attitudes concerning war, national identity...thought between the wars--patterns which...France between the wars has two stages, only...France at the end of 1918. Out of a total population...that of the original 1914 complement of his company...allies had won the war, to the point of being...novel adheres to the narrative pattern characteristic...death, echoed in the slang of trench soldiers...

...AMERICAN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I (1) by STEVEN TROUT...and to locate in the narratives sour depiction of small...reflection of Hemingways personal dissatisfaction with...reflection of post-World War I American veterans...Soldiers home" Oxford English Dictionary def. 10a)--a setting...boisterous use of soldiers slang is a less-than-comforting...most terrible battles of 1918, Krebs is expected...mechanized Armageddon of 1914 to 1918. Mr. Krebs, an aloof...momentarily registering the language that Krebss neighbors...

...Word on the Street: The English Language Is Continually Evolving, as Two New Slang Dictionaries Prove. but the Best Place...Hanley The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Edited by Tom Dalzell and...curling vernacular in the world. Lovers of slang and made...

...Victor: The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang Unconventional English. by Stefan Beck Tom Dalzell...Partridge Dictionary of Slang Unconventional English...completely the civilized world, we ladies and gentlemen...never came to understand the language that prisoners used...armed services of the two world wars, we try to do for the slang...

...Improvisation: Wising Up: Investigations of Slang by the Editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. by J.E. Lighter LAST fall Richard...been propelled into standard American English. Savvy is broader than smarts, shrewder...than know-how. It probably came into English from the Spanish saber, "to know...

...Editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. by J.E. Lighter PALEONTOLOGISTS...the cats that prowl the savannas of slang are pretty well domesticated. The...red panda. By 1910 it had become a slang reference to somebody energetic or...reconstruct the unwritten predecessors of English (and related languages) report that the modern bear ultimately...word hipikat, in the West African language Wolof; hipikat means, roughly...

...throughout the local language. Germany, the aggressor...carried the First World War into France and Belgium...onslaught of the Second World War. At least, the...lot in that part of the world; for weeks on end the...imagined well-bred English children. My hair was...

...Aboutmiddle Class Values Any More? WHAT IT SAYS IN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ... Tosser (Noun) British Slang a Stupid or Despicable Person C20 Probably from TOSS...and disappointed that the Conservative Party has used language like this. Debt is a serious issue and the party should...communications director Nick Wood said: It is the sort of language that could offend older Conservatives and women voters...

...Fascinating Additions to the Oxford English Dictionary. Travel outside the region and a...This weeks relaunch of the Oxford English Dictionarys (OED) online service...escaped the test of time. Popular slang for police polis first cropped up...They sent the polis there, the English were too drunk to know, the Irish...Newcastle Universitys School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics, said...

OOH I SAY; Mind Your Language with New Dictionary. Byline: By Kevin Turner...latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary will be able...the-minute record of the English language and how it is really...warn miners of poison gas. War also makes an impact on...now listed under PMQs. Slang terms continue to make their...attention." The Collins English Dictionary was first published...millions of people around the world. The ninth edition costs...

Dictionary captures an evolving language...words each year on its World Wide Web site www.m...netiquette," "World Wide Web," "home page...It may not stay in the language long enough to get in a...a permanent part of the language." "Partial-birth abortion...lexicographers, many of whom are English majors who love languages. The company also seeks...educational concepts. New slang terms include "gadzillion...

...process of writing or compiling a dictionary. "Lexicography" as an occupation...Johnson, who produced the landmark Dictionary of the English Language in 1755, defined a lexicographer as: "A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies...culture, establish the limits of language and fix the meaning of words...lexicographer, reject the notion that English is decaying. "All languages change," Mr. Sheidlower says...He discards the idea that slang and other ethnocentric infusions...