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Fourteen Words (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist organization The Order, [3] and are accompanied by Lane's "88 Precepts". The slogans have served as a rallying cry for militant white nationalists internationally.
A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
Leet (or " 1337 "), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. AD 1000 to the present day.
Jan 10, 2012 · As old words take on new meanings and new words emerge, questions about the fluidity of language and the meaning of words become more complicated — and more interesting.
This chapter examines three dictionaries combining English slang with other languages and slangs. Baumann's Londinismen presents English slang to a German-speaking audience; Barrère's Argot and Slang presents French slang for an English-speaking audience, with English slang synonyms; Barrère and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant attempts to cover American and Australian slang as ...
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the history of British cant and slang lexicography. It distinguishes between some of the language labels used in the book, including slang, jargon, cant, and flash. It then considers what lexicographers mean with the term cant. Keywords: English language, British cant, slang, lexicography.
