"the apocryphal HDAS III" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Robin Hamilton]

From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>

>> I've also, belatedly, just discovered the existence of David W.
> Maurer, who
>> seems to have published extensively on American slang from the early
> 30s on.
>> Know his work at all?  I've flagged it to look at whenever I next get
> near a
>> decent library, and ordered _The Big Con_, the only one of his books
> going
>> at a price inside my range.
>>
>
> Maurer published a number of interesting articles in _American Speech_,
> available through JSTOR (and through subscription to the current version
> in the ADS, I believe).

JSTOR ...  JSTOR -- I'm (technically) an Independent Scholar, and they don't
*allow us access to JSTOR.

Phoey.  <g>

The articles seem to have been collected in _Language of the underworld_
(1981), and York University Library (which I recently joined at the cost of
£50 per annum, but no database access) has that, so when I get there again
...

Dunno how I missed coming on him so long -- seems pretty central from the
description of his work from the comments I've garnered in the last few
days, so I'm looking forward to reading more.

Robin

> His books build on his research articles.
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