Download or read book Shallow-water Dictionary written by John R. Stilgoe and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stilgoe lyrically explains the vernacular language of America's shallow-water regions. "This dictionary, a sort of salvage operation of words drifting from dictionary language, may serve to moor the terminology of estuary English..". -- from the introduction to Shallow Water Dictionary