The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Underworld

by Eric Partridge

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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry show more comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose. show less

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Con 804 pagine, è ricchissimo e Eric Partridge è sempre autorevole. Potrebbe essere molto utile per chi traduce dall’inglese e si trova a dover capire lo slang storico inglese (presumo che sia piuttosto datato ormai, visto che è del 1950). Un buon libro.
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