Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2003.Description: xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • PE2838 .D493 2003
  • PE2838
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Contents:
A century's worth of old (and new) words -- 1900-1919 : Modern times -- twenties : flappers and flaming youth -- thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville -- forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe -- fifties : hipsters in Squaresville -- sixties : getting with it -- seventies : pet rocks and plumbers -- eighties : tubular times -- nineties : dot-comming into Y2K -- Good-bye to a great century.
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A century's worth of old (and new) words -- 1900-1919 : Modern times -- twenties : flappers and flaming youth -- thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville -- forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe -- fifties : hipsters in Squaresville -- sixties : getting with it -- seventies : pet rocks and plumbers -- eighties : tubular times -- nineties : dot-comming into Y2K -- Good-bye to a great century.

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