Book review of Jonathon Green memoir in Telegraph UK

[Jonathan Lighter]

> has defined slang for our age

See HDAS I, pp. xii-xxxix.

JL


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> Book Review of: Odd Job Man and Language! by Jonathon Green
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> Article subtitle: Super-geek turned lexicographer Jonathon Green has
> defined slang for our age. As he explains in a new memoir, it's not
> just a load of bullocks
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> Author: Nicholas Shakespeare
> Date: 30 Mar 2014
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10726944/Odd-Job-Man-and-Language-by-Jonathon-Green-review.html
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> [Begin excerpt]
> "I have no past," he writes, "and thus must start not at an ancestral
> beginning but merely at my own." His compulsion to seek out the roots
> of a word ("it must have origins") is a compensatory reflex.
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