Talk:Historical Dictionary of American Slang

2000 WSJ article
The Wall Street Journal ran an article about this book and its half-completion in 2000. This article would be a great source for fleshing out the story a bit:

"Jive Shortfall: Bookworm's Thing Is Ropin' In the Lingo; Some Critters Get Away --- Dispute With Publisher Leaves Slang Dictionary in the `O'-Zone". By Jennifer Ordonez. Wall Street Journal, 07 Sep 2000

Kenirwin/ (talk) 21:02, 16 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Also useful: SLANG: An Interview with J. E. Lighter by Hugh Rawson in American Heritage, Dec 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20121016072553/http://www.oup.com/us/collections/slang/history/amheritage.pdf


 * Project description from Oxford UP: http://web.archive.org/web/20120117125730/http://www.oup.com/us/collections/slang/?view=usa