Books showcasing slang and lingo throughout the years.
I work with a lot teens and enjoy making them cringe when i use outdated lingo. I would love a book that covers all the slang tbroughout the years. The furyher back it dates the better, ya dig?
Franny and Zoey by jd Salinger is 1940s American teen slang
Vanillacokestudio on
No recommendations, but I love the fact that you’re leaning it to it. That’s so fetch!
SenseIntelligent8846 on
*Last Exit to Brooklyn* is a terrific use-case for the slang of its time.
Alternatively, I remember a title which I think was called T*he Dictionary of American Slang* which we used to grab in the public library and laugh / snicker at the irreverent slang and profanity it chronicled when I was a grade-schooler.
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Huck Finn has some interesting lingo
Not a book, but there’s Cab Calloway’s Hepster’s Dictionary.
https://www.openculture.com/2015/01/cab-calloways-hepster-dictionary.html
Franny and Zoey by jd Salinger is 1940s American teen slang
No recommendations, but I love the fact that you’re leaning it to it. That’s so fetch!
*Last Exit to Brooklyn* is a terrific use-case for the slang of its time.
Alternatively, I remember a title which I think was called T*he Dictionary of American Slang* which we used to grab in the public library and laugh / snicker at the irreverent slang and profanity it chronicled when I was a grade-schooler.