TY - BOOK AU - Hotten,John Camden TI - A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James AV - PE PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Cant -- Dictionaries KW - English language -- England -- London -- Slang -- Dictionaries KW - English language -- Dialects -- England -- London -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc KW - London (England) -- Languages -- Dictionaries KW - Cant -- England -- London -- Dictionaries KW - Cambridge (England) -- Languages -- Dictionaries KW - Oxford (England) -- Languages -- Dictionaries N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Modern_Slang,_Cant,_and_Vulgar_Words; Release date is 2014-10-02; Produced by Chris Curnow, Jennifer Linklater, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words" by John Camden Hotten is a dictionary published in 1859. This groundbreaking lexicon captures the vivid street language of Victorian London, from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to the dens of St. Giles. Hotten documents criminal slang, back slang, and rhyming slang, arguing that slang represents "that evanescent, vulgar language, ever changing with fashion and taste." The work stands as the most important study of informal language since Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47018 ER -