Green's Dictionary of Slang

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 23 19:04:48 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Grant Barrett <grantbarrett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Three volumes, $450

Though I was initially stunned, after thinking it over, I've concluded
that this is actually quite a reasonable price. After all, over twenty
years ago, I got up off of $300 for the
then-already-somewhat-superannuated-but-still-standard, three-volume
historical dictionary of Sard[inian]. I hate to think of what that
would be in today's dollars!

And Jonathon's work will be hot off the presses, besides!
--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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