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COMPLETION OF THE FAMOUS 'SLANG DICTIONARY.'

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SLANG AND ITS ANALOGUES.

A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, from the Earliest Times, on Historical Principles, including Synonyms in English, French, and other Languages.

By J. S. FARMER and the late WALTER E. HENLEY.

Printed for Private Circulation only.

This great undertaking, on which twenty years of arduous labour and research have been spent, is now completed. The seven quarto volumes contain nearly 6,000 columns, closely yet legibly printed, forming the only comprehensive dictionary of heterodox English ever published. It gives thousands of examples of usage thiough the centuries, quoted from books, pamphlets, and journals, rendering it invaluable to the student of language, of customs, or of morals. From its very character it contains nnumerable words and phrases the coarseness of which prevents their appearance in ordinary dic- tionaries. The only work with which it compares for scope and treatment is the great Oxford ' Historical English Dictionary ' (Clarendon Press), with which, however, it has scarcely a word in common. Where both dictionaries do deal with the same word or phrase, the ' Slang Dictionary ' treats it and illustrates it/ar wore fully than the ' H.E.D.'

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Dr. J. A. H. MURRAY, Editor of the 'H.E.D.,' says: " It is the completest aud most scholarly work in its own field."

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