Idiom Savant: Slang as It Is Slung

by Jerry Dunn

The colorful and unique lingo of more than seventy American subcultures from animators to zine readers. Idiom Savant provides an intriguing insight into our language and into American culture as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805050930
• ISBN13: 9780805050936
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable look into America's language

What fun! Any fans of the English language or American pop culture will enjoy this reference book of common (and not so common) slang. I really enjoyed the origins of slang terms, which Mr. Dunn provides for many of the entries.Gaining insight into the private language of these professions, sports, and hobbies was very interesting, and many quite humourous. Some could offend, however, and the book is not recommended for children.One suggestion I would have made to Mr. Dunn is to have used periods to clarify acronyms that are pronounced by the letters (D.O.A.) and no periods when they are pronounced as a word (NASA), as I was confused as to how some terms were to be pronounced (all acronyms are listed without periods). I'm hoping there will be other editions of this book, as I'm sure there are many other lexicons in American culture to be explored.