Book review of Jonathon Green memoir in Telegraph UK

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 13, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>> has defined slang for our age
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> See HDAS I, pp. xii-xxxix.

A very useful essay for all of us members of the species _Pignoramus intolerabilis_, as related therein.

LH
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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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