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By Eric Partridge
A Dictionary of the Underworld compiled by Eric Partridge.
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Hatred of restraint led to unconventionality.
Eric Partridge, The Sunburnt Country
The unconventionality is linguistic. It issues in a freer interpretation and a simpler practice of accidence and syntax, in a readier acceptance of new terms, in a healthy, only very rarely lawless, contempt for the social strata of language, and in a greater facility of metaphor-coining and of word-coining.
Eric Partridge, The Sunburnt Country
Language has always in part recruited itself from below as well as above and, most numerously, from all sides.
Eric Partridge, The Sunburnt Country
It's the birthday of lexicographer and writer Eric Partridge (books by this author), born in Poverty Bay, New Zealand (1894), who wrote some of the very first dictionaries of slang before scholars considered it a serious subject. In A Dictionary of the Underworld (1949) and A Dictionary of Catchphrases (1977), Partridge chronicled the language of not only the common person, but also of "crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars, and tramps."
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