The Man They Call Mister Slang
Listen to Slate's show about Jonathon Green's decades-long quest to document slang throughout the English-speaking world.
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Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 44: Man on the Street
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Jonathon Green, author of The Vulgar Tongue and Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a 6,000-page, three-volume reference. Green has spent more than 20 years cataloging slang down the centuries and across many English-speaking regions of the world.
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