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Product Description
The renouned author of Slang! earnings to explain American fighting difference and phrases from a Civil War to a Gulf War. From a infantryman's foxhole to a warrior pilot's cockpit, Dickson explores a origins, meanings and context of a flighty and aroused vocabulary.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3364356 in Books
- Published on: 1994-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 403 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Thousands of new difference and phrases are combined by soldiers in wartime, many of them apropos partial of a bland vocabulary. Dickson, a author of renouned titles on subjects as different as American jargon and ice cream, has collected a jargon of American soldiers fighting in a Civil War, World Wars, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and Cold War. A territory is clinging to any (the World War II territory alone contains over 3000 alphabetically organised terms). Etymologies are given when available, and minute sidebars explain a story of some of a many colorful expressions, e.g., "Kilroy was here." The investigate work of linguistic academician Charles Hogue, an endless investigate of a Peter Tamony collection during a University of Missouri, and a endless bibliography during a finish of any territory minister to a correctness of a text. An progressing work to deliberate is John Elting and others' Dictionary of Soldier Talk (Scribner, 1984), nonetheless Dickson's work is a initial to cover all a vital wars. This content will turn a customary anxiety work on fight jargon and is essential for open and educational libraries.
Richard Nowicki, Emerson Vocational H.S., Buffalo, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Dickson's renouned dictionaries embody The Congress Dictionary [RBB De 1 93], The Ways and Meanings of Capitol Hill (Wiley, 1993), and Dickson's Word Treasury (Wiley, 1992). This latest work is orderly by conflict, commencement with a Civil War and including a Spanish American War, World Wars we and II, Korea, Vietnam, and a Gulf War. The work ends with a "Doomsday's Dictionary: Verbal Fallout from Nukes, a Cold War and a Puzzle Palace." The latter tenure is tangible in this territory as "(1) The Pentagon. (2) The National Security Agency." This brief reason is standard of too many other definitions in this dictionary. Like many jargon dictionaries, grammatical labels, etymological notes, use notes, and instance sentences are scarce. Such phrases as no-man's-land, brush-off club, topside from a top accept fuller diagnosis with definitions of 50 to 70 difference and including quotations with works cited. Sources are listed during a finish of any section; they will lead users to other fight dictionaries, memoirs, and vital delegate works. The author's brief though delicately thought-out spontaneous introductions to any territory assistance conclude a season of a period. The sequential arrangement of a compendium leads users from a some-more regretful and, perhaps, nationalistic time by a hardened and grave Korean and Vietnam conflicts. An index lists all a entries.
Elting's Dictionary of Soldier Talk (Scribner, 1984) is a endless work, organised in one alphabet, though it doesn't cover a many new wars. The following works yield some-more endless coverage of specific wars: Colby's classical work finished early in World War I, Army Talk: A Familiar Dictionary of Soldier Speech (Princeton, 1942); Reinberg's In a Field: The Language of a Vietnam War (Facts On File, 1991); and Clark's Words of a Vietnam War (McFarland, 1990). Librarians looking for a renouned compendium that will interest to laypersons will wish to cruise War Slang; the arrangement helps users know one aspect of a history.
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