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Jonathon Green

About meI am a lexicographer of anglophone slang; the most recent of my books being Chambers Slang Dictionary (a third revised and expanded edition of the original Cassells Dictionary of Slang, 1998) which was published in October 2008. For those who like to keep it further down and a good deal dirtier, Getting Off at Gateshead: The Stories Behind the Dirtiest Words and Phrases in the English Language (Quercus)appeared in 2008.
My multi-volume, fully cited dictionary of slang - Green's Dictionary of Slang on Historical Principles - was published in the UK by Chambers/Hodder in November 2010. The US distributors, OUP/US, will be making it available in February 2011; they will also release an e-book version as part of the Oxford Dictionaries Online package.
I am now embarking on the research for a History of Slang, due to be published by Grove Atlantic in 2012

About my libraryA core of slang-related reference works; a large group of books which I not merely read but from which I glean citations (i.e, pulp, crime and hard-boiled fiction of various ages and quality) biographies, history, lowlife, cities, 'non-slang' fiction, rats and all the rest...the agglomeration of a lifetime of loving books.

Homepagehttp://jonathongreen.co.uk/

Real nameJonathon Green

LocationLondon and Paris

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Arguably by Christopher Hitchens

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Truth Dare Kill by Gordon Ferris

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Holocaust the nazi persecution and murder of the jews by Peter Longerich

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The Silent Wall / The Return of Marvin Palaver by Peter Rabe

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Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

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Metamaus by Art Spiegelman

I've suggested to Aberdeen University Library that they buy a copy of the Green's. ;-)

posted by CarolineMacafee at 4:41 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2011

Yes, it's sad - to think there were four educational/dictionary publishers in Scotland at one time.

posted by CarolineMacafee at 7:31 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2011

Hi Jonathon, thanks for accepting my friend request. You certainly chose the right imprint for the multi-volume dictionary!

Kind regards

Caroline

posted by CarolineMacafee at 6:42 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2011

Jonathon: My new nonfiction novel (aka memoir) just came out, picking up where the psychedelic memoir (and the sixties we discussed a bit) ended. This one is a memoir of the seventies:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digging-Deeper-Seventies-Peter-Weissman/dp/190655711X/re...

posted by copyedit52 at 12:29 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2011

Jonathon - just wanted to check in to wish you a merry christmas. Hope things are going well. Looks like you have chunky projects on the go!

Dennis

posted by zenomax at 3:14 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2010

Jonathon - your Dictionary of Slang arrived this afternoon. Congratulations. It's magnificent. I anticipate spending some considerable time perusing it and 'grubbing' around seeking out its treasures. I think the layout and typography are superb. Chambers have done a very decent job (and Amazon in selling it at the price they have)My OAP heating allowance arrived this week, it came in very useful.

Best Wishes
fraxi

PS Who needs Partridge. All copies must be consigned to the stacks immediately!

posted by fraxi at 11:52 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2010

Adorable rat! (I looked at your profile because I was curious about other people who own Musrum.)

posted by piemouth at 10:54 pm (EST) on May 24, 2010

Jonathon - thanks for producing such a cracking thread, I think more people than those that contributed enjoyed it (the ratio of lurkers to contributors tends to be quite high) - hope you enjoyed it too. As I mentioned, it would be great if we continue to see you in group threads from time to time.

D.

posted by zenomax at 3:06 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2010

Jonathon, I was twenty-three in 1967, and wrote about it in my book, I Think, Therefore Who Am I?, Memoir of a Psychedelic Year, which was the basis for becoming one of your predecessors as an "underappreciated author." I entered that year as quite political, and after LSD and some other drugs, left the (external) revolution behind for another type of utopia, which was solipsistic, yes, but had a taste of enlightenment to it that led to some interesting places in the seventies, an era that had its own qualities, as I'm sure you know ... kind of like a grown-up sixties, I think, with less flash but more solidity. I do like talking about those old times, if only because so few people seem able to be both critical and appreciative. I think Tony Judt strives for that, but in Postwar, for instance, I get the feeling he bends over too far--like so many sixties survivors do--to diminish what we all agreed at the time was a remarkable era.

posted by copyedit52 at 12:36 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2010

In fact, Gazophylacium is the name of my blog: www.lexicografia.blogspot.com

It's just because of the "Gazophylacium catalano-latinum", a XVIIth century catalan-latin dictionary, one of the elders of my collection.

What do you need about spanish slang?

Joan Puigmalet(but I'm a man).

posted by puigmalet at 2:18 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2009

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