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This re-issue of Julian Franklyn's classic dictionary not only defines these expressions but also explains their origin and history. An introductory essay examines the roots and development of rhyming slang. Although many people assume that rhyming slang is exclusively Cockney, Franklyn illustrates how it is common to Australian and Americn dialects. From the unlikely to the bizarre, the 1, 500 entries both entertain and enlighten. Cartoons en...

LAUGHING IN THE JUNGLE was a dark horse success. This book has been selected by the Book of the Month for February, which should give it an impetus and a certain amount of publicity. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Adamic used it to revisit his home, in Jugoslavia, and to give us, in this book, a picture of that strangely composite country today. There the old world and the new meet and blend, feudal mediaevalism lives next door to a modern...