Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers: a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century
Auteur :
Ostler, Rosemarie
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195182545
Date de publication :
29 sept. 2005
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,8 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
395 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A nostalgic word trip through the highs and lows of American English from the last century, this book pays special attention to words that enjoyed a brief vogue only to end up abandoned and nearly forgotten: jet jockeys, keypunch operators, the bugged-out and the slackers.