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The British Library Has a Vulgar Dictionary – You Can Learn a Lot from Slang
- samizdis 4y agoAs mentioned at the end of the article, the dictionary is available online [1] (at the Internet Archive): A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue by Grose, Francis [1] https://archive.org/details/b2876190x https://archive.org/details/b2876190x
- cafard 4y agoSomebody brought out an edition in the 1950s or so, with an introduction and notes by the lexicographer Eric Partridge.
- dieselgate 4y agoOh gosh, I’m American and absolutely loved watching the British show “The Inbetweeners” basically just because of all the slang. While I’m at it “Love Island Australia” was tolerable only because of the slang as well. Not sure what is coloring my bias here but it personally seems American English is pretty boring in comparison.
- alrlroipsp 4y agoGive Derry Girls a go, alot of dialect, slang and some irish :)
- kbouck 4y agoNo discussion on swearing dictionaries is complete without mentioning "Roger's Profanisaurus": https://a.co/d/bbKKHME https://a.co/d/bbKKHME https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%27s_Profanisaurus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%27s_Profanisaurus