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Tony Thorne Slang Research

Slang & New Language Weblinks

InformationAs well as Slang, the New Language Archive at King's collects jargon, buzzwords and other linguistic novelties and exoticisms.

You can contribute your examples, or your comments, questions and criticisms to Tony Thorne, who will gratefully acknowledge you - in print, if the word or phrase you send is published.

New Language and Slang Links

Fellow collectors of new language and connoisseurs of language change have kindly given permission for the following links.

New Language

www.shinecom.com/downloads/SHI_Book.pdf

The PR and Communications Agency, Shine.com, tracks the latest lifestyle and business trends and the novel terminology used to describe them. A copy of their new trend book Swarming in the Statusphere can be downloaded (with thanks to Rachel Bell and Natasha Prior).

www.worldwidewords.org

Michael Quinion edits the excellent World Wide Words website which tracks new and interesting usages and debates meanings and origins.

www.buzzwhack.com

John Walston is author of the Buzzword Dictionary and is responsible for the long-established BuzzWhack website

www.wordnik.com

New, unusual, quirky and difficult words are collected and explained by Wordnik By kind permission of John McGrath.

Slang

www.urbandictionary.com

The most up-to-date and comprehensive open-source collection of contemporary slang is Aaron Peckham’s Urban Dictionary.

www.fromoldbooks.org

Liam Quin has edited and placed on-line two seminal historical slang sources (see this site’s appreciation of Francis Grose).

www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/cant/

You can find a database of thieves’ slang among Stephen Hart’s 18th century resources.

www.archive.org/details/cu31924026564504

B.E’s ‘Canting Crew’ dictionary.

www.llas.ac.uk/resources/paper.aspx?resourceid=2725

A link to a talk by Tony Thorne.

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