[Ads-l] HDAS

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Six months ago, I pointed out on Bluesky a picture of Harlan Ellison's office, with a wide variety of reference works, including HDAS (with two copies of volume 2):

https://bsky.app/profile/jessesword.com/post/3m5fod42ecc2w

Jesse Sheidlower

On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 05:52:33PM +0000, Bill Mullins wrote:
> I've mentioned previously
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> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2019-July/154918.html
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> that author Neil Gaiman had a copy of Jon's Historical Dictionary of American Slang on his shelves.
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> I just noticed that there was a copy in magician/actor Ricky Jay's office as well:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/arts/design/ricky-jay-magician-collection.html
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