A slang bibliography

Some suggested reading material, in paper form (remember that stuff?). Unfortunately not all the listings are still in print so you'll need to get down to your local library and 'mither the pants off' them for an available copy.

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A DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH
Eric Partridge.
Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul / London. 1984.
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CASSELL's DICTIONARY OF SLANG -
Jonathon Green.
Published by Weidenfield & Nicholson / London. 2005.
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PORT OUT, STARBOARD HOME & OTHER LANGUAGE MYTHS
Michael Quinion.
Published by Penguin Books / London. 2004.
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THE BIG BOOK OF FILTH -
Jonathon Green.
Published by Cassell / London. 1999.
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SLANG DOWN THE AGES -
Jonathon Green.
Published by Kyle Cathie Limited. 1994.
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A DICTIONARY OF RHYMING SLANG -
Julian Franklyn.
Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul / London. 1975.
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FRESH RABBIT- A DICK'N'HARRY OF CONTEMPORARY RHYMING SLANG -
Ray Puxley.
Published by Robson Books / London. 1998.
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CASSELL'S RHYMING SLANG -
Jonathon Green.
Published by Cassell / London. 2000.

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THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF RHYMING SLANG -
John Ayto.
Published by Oxford University Press / Oxford. 2002.
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OUTBURSTS: A QUEER EROTIC THESAURUS -
A.D. Peterkin.
Published by Arsenal Pulp Press / Vancouver. 2003.
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THE BALD-HEADED HERMIT AND THE ARTICHOKE: AN EROTIC THESAURUS -
A.D. Peterkin.
Published by Arsenal Pulp Press / Vancouver. 2001.
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FANTABULOSA - A DICTIONARY OF POLARI AND GAY SLANG -
Paul Baker.
Published by Continuum / London. 2002.
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DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY SLANG -
Tony Thorne.
Published by Bloomsbury / London. 1997.
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A DICTIONARY OF PLAYGROUND SLANG -
Chris Lewis.
Published by Allison & Busby Ltd / London. 2003.
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SLANGUAGE - A DICTIONARY OF IRISH SLANG -
Bernard Share.
Published by Gill and Macmillan / Dublin. 1997.
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FLAPPERS 2 RAPPERS - AMERICAN YOUTH SLANG -
Tom Dalzell.
Published by Merriam-Webster / Springfield, Massachusetts. 1996.
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THE SLANG OF SIN -
Tom Dalzell.
Published by Merriam-Webster / Springfield, Massachusetts. 1998.
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ROGER'S PROFANISAURUS
Chris Donald.
Published by John Brown Publishing Limited / London. 1998.
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NTC's DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SLANG AND COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS -
Ewart James.
Published by NTC Publishing Group / Chicago. 1997.
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THE COMPLETE PATTER -
Michael Munro.
Published by Canongate Books / Edinburgh. 1998.
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THE BEST OF BRITISH (THE AMERICAN'S GUIDE TO SPEAKING BRITISH) -
Mike Etherington.
Published by Effingpot.com Productions. 1999.
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MACQUARIE BOOK OF SLANG - AUSTRALIAN SLANG IN THE 90s-
Edited by James Lambert
Published by Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. 1996.

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THE F-WORD -
Jesse Sheidlower
Published by Faber & Faber / London. 1999.

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THE SLANGUAGE OF SEX -
Brigid McConville / John Shearlaw.
Published by Macdonald / London. 1984.
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THE MACMILLAN DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG -
Robert L. Chapman.
Published by MacMillan / London. 1995.

THE MACMILLAN DICTIONARY OF SLANG -
Jonathon Green.
Published by MacMillan / London. 1995.

THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG -
John Ayto / John Simpson.
Published by Oxford University Press. 1992.

A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN IDIOMS -
Adam Makkai/ M.T. Boatner/ J.E. Gates.
Published by Barron's Educational Series. 2004.

THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG -
John Ayto.
Published by Oxford University Press. 1998.

	DICTIONARY OF CURIOUS PHRASES - Leslie Dunkling. Published by HarperCollinsPublishers / Glasgow. 1998.
	DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG - Harold Wentworth / Stuart Berg Flexner. Published by Thomas Y. Cromwell / New York. 1967.
	SLANG AND EUPHEMISM - Richard A. Spears. Published by Jonathan David Publishers, Inc. / New York. 1981.
	I HEAR AMERICA TALKING - Stuart Berg Flexner. Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company / New York. 1976.
	THE CITY IN SLANG - Irving Lewis Allen. Published by Oxford University Press / New York. 1993.
	A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF SLANG - B.A. Phythian. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. 1996.
	COCKNEY DIALECT AND SLANG - Peter Wright. Published by B.T.Batsford / London. 1981.
	THE LANKY TWANG - Peter Wright. Published by The Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd / N. Yorkshire. 1977.
	THE YORKSHIRE DICTIONARY OF DIALECT, TRADITION AND FOLKLORE - Arnold Kellett. Published by Smith Settle Ltd / W. Yorkshire. 1994.
	PRISON SLANG - William K. Bentley / James M. Corbett. Published by McFarland / Jefferson, N.Carolina. 1992.
	BLACK SLANG - Clarence Major. Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul / London. 1971.
	BRITISH BLACK SLANG - David Sutcliffe. Published by Basil Blackwell / Oxford. 1982.
	LANGUAGE OF THE UNDERWORLD - David W. Maurer. Published by The University Press of Kentucky / Kentucky. 1981.
	A DICTIONARY OF EUPHEMISMS - R.W. Holder. Published by Oxford University Press. 1995.