Ostler, Rosemarie, <br/><br/>
Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers :  a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / 
Rosemarie Ostler. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2003. 
 - xv, 239 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
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<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003008302 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Americanisms.<br/>English language--Obsolete words.<br/>English language--20th century--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.<br/>English language--Slang--20th century--Dictionaries.<br/>English language--United States--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.<br/>English language--Slang--United States--Dictionaries.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE2838  / .D493 2003 PE2838