基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1993. Provides a vivid social and cultural history of America's premier city as reflected in the slang it generated for a national audience.
Full Description
Irving Lewis Allen provides an insightful history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. Anecdotal and at times analytical, this book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.