[Ads-l] HDAS

[Jonathan Lighter]

Hmmm. Does Sydney Sweeney have one?

JL

On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2019-July/154918.html
> >
> > that author Neil Gaiman had a copy of Jon's Historical Dictionary of
> American Slang on his shelves.
> >
> > I just noticed that there was a copy in magician/actor Ricky Jay's
> office as well:
> >
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/arts/design/ricky-jay-magician-collection.html
> >
> >
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