A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a
The dictionary was updated in 2005 by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor as The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,[3][4] and again in 2007 as The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,[5] which has additional entries compared to the 2005 edition, but omits the extensive citations.
Original publication
Partridge published seven editions of his "hugely influential"
In 1972, an abridgement (by Jacqueline Simpson) of the 1961 edition was published by Penguin Reference Books as A Dictionary of Historical Slang.
Update following Partridge's death
Following the seventh published edition of A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in 1969, Eric Partridge had collected new material for another edition until his 1979 death.[7] Prior to his death, Partridge "designated a successor", librarian[12] and former military intelligence officer Paul Beale (who had contributed military slang to Partridge's efforts since 1974),[7] and the lexicographical work was continued. The Eighth edition of A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English was published by Macmillan as a single-volume work in 1984.[1][7][12] Beale also published in 1990 a condensed version of the dictionary, titled Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.[2]
Twenty-first century update
In 2004, editors Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor published The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, a two-volume update of the dictionary. Dalzell and Victor were chosen by the publisher Routledge to update the Partridge dictionary;[4] this edition is, however, completely new and unrelated to the previous versions.[13] A concise edition was published in 2007. It has about 60,000 entries, and "contains every entry in New Partridge as well as several hundred new words that have come into the slang lexicon since 2005", but omits the extensive citations of the 2005 edition, thus coming bound in slightly over 700 pages of only one volume compared to over 4000 pages for the unabridged, two-volume edition.[14]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-02-594980-2.
- ^ ISBN 0-02-605350-0.
- ISBN 0-415-25937-1.
- ^ a b "As Slang Changes More Rapidly, Expert Has to Watch His Language", Vauhini Vara, The Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2011
- ISBN 0-415-21259-6.
- ^ Jonathon Green, in "Slang: The Universal Language" (Interview by Toby Ash with lexicographer Jonathon Green), Salon.com, Oct. 15, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f "BOOKS OF THE TIMES: Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English", John Gross, The New York Times, April 12, 1985
- ^ a b c Tom McArthur. "Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English." Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. 1998. Retrieved July 31, 2011 from Encyclopedia.com
- ^ a b c Review: A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 8th edition, John Mullan, The Guardian, 7 December 2002
- ^ "The Definitive Slang Dictionary", Ben Zimmer, The New York Times, April 1, 2011
- ^ "Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang", A. Dilworth Faber, The New York Times, May 23, 1937
- ^ The Calgary Herald, June 12, 1985
- ISBN 9780199691630.
- ISBN 978-0-415-21259-5.