Sorensen Janet - Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth - Century Slang Cant Provincial Languages And Nautical Jargon Became English - Hardcover Employment & Unemployment Barcode: 810075113297

Sorensen Janet - Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth - Century Slang Cant Provincial Languages And Nautical Jargon Became English - Hardcover Employment & Unemployment Barcode: 810075113297Binding: Hardcover Description: How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth century Britain While eighteenth century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period less well known are the era's popular collections of odd slang crimi Title: Strange Vernaculars How Eighteenth Century Slang Cant Provincial

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