Online links: Green’s Dictionary of Slang: The Timelines of Slang: the timelines of ww.slang.tumblr. His ongoing collection of The Timelines of Slang (the chronological ordering of the slang vocabularies of the counter-language’s favourite topics) is available online. Jonathon's latest book Sounds and Furies: The Love-Hate Relationship between Women and Slangwas published by Constable and Robinson in 2019. Other slang-related titles include The Slang Thesaurus (1988), Slang Down the Ages (1993), Getting Off at Gateshead (2008), Crooked Talk (2016) and The Stories of Slang (2016). Green has also written a history of lexicography ( Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionary They Made, 1996), a history of slang ( Language! 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue, 2014) and a ‘lexico-biography’ ( Odd Job Man, 2014). At present it offers approximately 140,000 slang words and phrases, underpinned by around 635,000 citations or illustrative examples. As of 2016, this has been available online and is expanded and revised in quarterly updates.
The material, which deals with the slang of every English-speaking country, dates from approximately 1400 and continues as far as possible to the present day. James Joyce, in the midst of the stream of consciousness in 'Finnegans Wake,' 1939, asks 'who struck Buckley' but implies every schoolgirl knows. The Cassell Dictionary of Slang appeared in 1998, the Chambers Dictionary of Slang in 2008 and the three-volume Green’s Dictionary of Slang in 2010. 'Cassell's Dictionary of Slang' by Jonathon Green, 2005, acknowledges it since 1864, 'a common phrase used to irritate Irishmen,' but says the etymology is unknown. His first dictionary appeared in 1984 and since then he has written and broadcast widely on the subject. Read 7 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.broadly entertaining resource covers the waterfront with. COOMBS MOYLETT MACLEAN Jonathon Green Jonathon Green, known as ‘Mr Slang’, is the world’s leading lexicographer of dictionaries of anglophone slang.