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CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...Borazonic is latest English schoolboy slang, derived from new metal, borazon. Translation: "Absolutely wizard...
...teachers with "the intellectual guts to expose themselves to criticism and improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with cheerful self-esteem after arduous homework (he has read The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy 444 times...
...King. Even more devastating is Le Canard Enchaine, a six-page weekly with a circulation of 290,000. Founded during World War I, Le Canard Enchaine (The Chained Duck) is French slang for a censored press. It carries no advertising, makes no profit, and barely pays the salaries of the editors who own it. But its news sources are among Paris' best, and it often manages to print as gossip what more serious journals dare not print as news, is closely watched by politicians and Cabinet ministers for its reflection of the country's temper (at least three...
Dictionary of American Slang, compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. A handy compendium of berserk English, from Abe's cabe to zooly...