Inter-library loan "wish list"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

> Here's an interlibrary loan "wish list" that I don't want to burden
> the NYPL's understaffed department with:

Great collection, Barry. I hope some of these can be followed up on.


> MEDICAL SLANG STRONG WORDS: MEDICAL SLANG (1994) by Sally Williams.
> Her MA thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
> which is the only place that has it.

I've asked Connie Eble if she can track this down.

>
> TAMPA SLANG
>    TAMPA SPANISH SLANG (WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) (1966) by Adrian Cherry.  Available at the University of Arizona, and then only in Florida.

...

>  UNDERWORLD SLANG
> UNDERWORLD SLANG (1936) by Convict 12627.
> Available only at the Tennessee State Library & Archives.  Has
> Lighter looked at it?

I have personal copies of the above two items, neither of which has
been looked at by Lighter. The first is Spanish-language slang,
chiefly figurative phrases, with both literal and more colloquial
English translations; some items have notes. It is pretty close to
zero interest to people interested in American English slang.

The second is a very short collection, apparently of two glossaries
that appeared in Detective Fiction Weekly (Partridge cites these in
Dictionary of the Underworld). It's mostly derivative but has a few
good items.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED