[Ads-l] HDAS spotted

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Nicely spotted, Bill.

Many of the other books are identifiable, even in this poor photo. HDAS is bracketed by two volumes of DARE on the left side, and the 1975 edition of Wentworth and Flexner's slang dictionary on the right (followed by the two-volume 1987 Wordsworth printing of Farmer and Henley).

Jesse Sheidlower

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 05:13:51AM +0000, Bill Mullins wrote:
> Writer Neil Gaiman has been in the news lately (apparently, he has trouble keeping his rocket in his pocket).  I ran across a photo of him in his writing office from a few years ago, and sitting there on his shelves are Vols. 1 & 2 of Jonathan Lighter's "Historical Dictionary of American Slang."
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> https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/neil-gaiman-writers-office-6.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1&resize=910%2C511
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> If the photo was a little sharper, I bet I'd recognize a few other of the books (I know the author of the two-volume set at top, "The Magic of Johnny Thompson," from a shared interest in magic).
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

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The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org