This work sheds light on the compilation of Slang and its Analogues, completed in seven volumes between 1890 and 1904. The letters show the nature of the Farmer

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in w

Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective brings together a wide range of current work on English-language lexicography and lexico

Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon’s obscene outburst on 'I’m a Cel

These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid devel