Jonathon Green introduces his favourite collector of slang (and an ancestor of The Dabbler's very own Jon Hotten), John Camden Hotten... SLANG represents that evanescent, vulgar language, ever changing with fashion and taste,...spoken by persons in every grade of life, rich and poor, honest and dishonest...Slang is indulged in from a ... Read More...
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Fired by Jonathan Law’s recent reference to the man, Jonathon Green brings us another Hero of Slang. John Taylor: The Water Poet. Taylor was born in Gloucester in 1578; his father may have been a barber-surgeon. He was educated in the town but abandoned school when he found Latin grammar too challenging. In the ... Read More...
Mr Slang shines a light on another hero of slang, this time from the world of pulp fiction... I reached for the doorknob of Linda LaMarre’s dressing room. Before I could turn it I heard a gurgling screech from inside, followed by a heavy thud. I yanked the portal open, catapulted ... Read More...
Jonathon Green continues his 'Heroes of Slang' series... The essence of ’arry, he sez, is high sperrits. That ain't so fur out. I'm ‘Fiz’ not four ’arf, my dear feller. Flare-up is my motter, no doubt. Carn’t set in a corner canoodling, and do the Q. T. day and night. My mug, mate, was made ... Read More...
Jonathon Green continues his occasional 'Heroes of Slang' series by looking at American author George Ade... He was a mid-Westerner (Indiana and thus a ‘Hoosier’ maybe from the rustic’s faltering ‘Who’s here?’) and admirably prolific (93 titles in the Library of Congress). He had been a columnist on the Chicago Morning News and ... Read More...
Jonathon Green kicks off The Dabbler's Big Royal Wedding Jamboree, sponsored by 1649 Bradshaw... The last time this happened I spent the morning at Wormwood Scrubs. My friend had had two tons of grass in a garden shed. Coppers in camo and blackface materialised in his vegetable patch at 0400 hours. Yes, that ... Read More...
Once, browsing the net for myself (could this be an eighth deadly sin, I wonder?), I found my name among those of alleged notability who had been born in Kidderminster. I appreciate that Kiddey, as locals term it, is probably under-endowed celeb-wise but this seemed a step too far. Anyway, ... Read More...
Jonathon Green - visit his website here - is the English language's leading lexicographer of slang. His Green's Dictionary of Slang is quite simply the most comprehensive and authorative work on slang ever published. Today Jonathon concludes his epic survey of the Seven Deadly Sins of Slang with a lascivious ... Read More...
Jonathon Green - visit his website here - is the English language's leading lexicographer of slang. His Green's Dictionary of Slang is quite simply the most comprehensive and authorative work on slang ever published. Today Jonathon continues his epic survey of the Seven Deadly Sins of Slang with Pride... We know ... Read More...
Jonathon Green - visit his website here - is the English language's leading lexicographer of slang. His Green's Dictionary of Slang is quite simply the most comprehensive and authorative work on slang ever published. Today Jonathon continues his epic survey of the Seven Deadly Sins of Slang with Greed... 'This, sir,' ... Read More...
