Categories range from The Body to Pulp Diction, via multi-cultural London English and pun-tastic gems. Jonathon Green, aka 'Mr Slang', has drawn on the 600,000-plus citations that make up his magisterial Green's Dictionary of Slang (published 2010, now online at to tell some of slang's most entertaining stories. There are over 10,000 terms focusing on sex, but love? Not one. Caring, sharing and compassion? Not at this address. It's about hatreds - both intimate and and national - about the insults that follow on, the sneers and the put-downs. is a fascinating look at how centuries of slang came to inform all aspects of social life, how it was used, and how much of it still lingers.' History Revealed Like the flesh-and-blood humans whose uncensored emotions it represents, slang's obsessions are sex, the body and its functions, and intoxication: drink and drugs. 'By turns bawdy, sweary and irreverent, this book.
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