Ebook: Strange vernaculars: how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became english
Author: Sorensen Janet
- Tags: English language--Etymology, English language -- Etymology
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- City: Princeton
- Language: English
- epub
While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied, less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. This text delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the 'common people' and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries, and in novels, poems, and songs.
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