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CHAMBERS SLANG DICTIONARY is a brand-new edition of Jonathon Green s magisterial slang dictionary, first published in 1998. Covering the full range of slang over five centuries and from all parts of the English-speaking world, this collection has won universal acclaim for both its scholarly credentials and for the sheer delight that only a big book full of dirty words can hold. This new edition, the first to be published by Chambers, retains all the verve and precision of the earlier work, and been completely overhauled and restructured to make it as easy as possible to find what you're looking for. Anyone interested in the seamier side of language will experience hours of pure joy exploring the vast wealth of CHAMBERS SLANG DICTIONARY and plumbing the depths of centuries of slang.

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"To winch the dictionary onto your knee and open its pages is like entering an orchard full of strange and wonderful fruit. - Chav? That's SO September 10th - Seven magazine, The Sunday Telegraph A mighty tome dedicated to language's seedier denizens. - 'Green's search for slanging match', Camden New Journal The most-acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson has every right to blow off (""late 18th century: to boast, to brag"". What did you think?) as he wraps up a new edition of this most mind-bendingly addictive guide to taboo talk. - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent Whether one trawls the pages of Green's dictionary or merely glances at them, rich discoveries are certain. - 'Fulham virgins and other slang pleasures', Harry Hitchings, The Times Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green - Martin Amis, Experience Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary... contains more than 4,500 words for drink, 4,000 for drugs, 2,400 for idiots and 634 for buttocks. It covers five centuries of language from the wrong side of the tracks, but it is the youngest entries that provide some of the greatest amusement. A Giorgio Armani, for example, in rhyming slang, is a sarnie and a squirrel-kisser is an environmentalist. - Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph Jonathon Green is the nation's indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a tireless troweller in"

To winch the dictionary onto your knee and open its pages is like entering an orchard full of strange and wonderful fruit. -- Chav? That's SO September 10th - Seven magazine, The Sunday Telegraph 20081026 A mighty tome dedicated to language's seedier denizens. -- 'Green's search for slanging match', Camden New Journal 20081030 The most-acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson has every right to blow off ( late 18th century: to boast, to brag . What did you think?) as he wraps up a new edition of this most mind-bendingly addictive guide to taboo talk. -- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent 20081128 Whether one trawls the pages of Green's dictionary or merely glances at them, rich discoveries are certain. -- 'Fulham virgins and other slang pleasures', Harry Hitchings, The Times 20090206 'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green' -- Martin Amis, Experience 20090206 Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary... contains more than 4,500 words for drink, 4,000 for drugs, 2,400 for idiots and 634 for buttocks.It covers five centuries of language from the wrong side of the tracks, but it is the youngest entries that provide some of the greatest amusement. A Giorgio Armani, for example, in rhyming slang, is a sarnie and a squirrel-kisser is an environmentalist. -- Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph 20080920 Jonathon Green is the nation's indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a tireless troweller in the slurry of the unsayable. His Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (1998) and Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008) are phenomenal compendia of non-standard usages, ranging across the whole lexicon of English bar-room coinages. -- John Walsh, 'Hail to the Professor of Profanity', The Independent 20081112

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Chambers, now Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd following the acquisition of the Harrap bilingual dictionary list in the early 1990s, continues to be based in Edinburgh. As of 2006 it is part of the Hachette Livre UK group of publishers. As well as the core business of publishing dictionaries and thesauruses, Chambers also publishes a range of language-reference titles, reference titles on science, history, biography and quotations, fact books, phrasebooks, and crossword, puzzle and games titles. It is one of the most respected reference publishers in the world.

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