benny/HDAS

[Grant Barrett]

On Jun 15, 2005, at 16:21, neil wrote:
> Of course, I am a privileged householder who has both volumes of
> HDAS, an indispensable resource of recondite knowledge,
> meticulously researched (why, oh why, did RH give up on the most
> important slang survey in our life time?).

You do realize that Oxford University Press, with the esteemed Dr.
Jonathan Lighter, is completing HDAS, right? Volume III is planned
for 2006, volume IV for 2008.

Grant Barrett
Project Editor, Historical Dictionary of American Slang
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org