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Jonathon Green (born 20 April 1948 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire) is a British lexicographer of slang and writer on the history of alternative cultures. Jonathon Green is often referred to as the English-speaking world’s leading lexicographer of slang,^[1] and has even been described as 'The most acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson'.^[2]

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Publications

Language: Dictionaries and Related Publications

Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon (1983)

The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (1984, 1992, 1995)

The Slang Thesaurus (1986, 1999)

The A–Z of Nuclear Jargon (1986)

The Dictionary of Jargon (1987 RKP)

Neologisms: a dictionary of contemporary coinages (1991)

Slang Down the Ages: the Historical Development of Slang (1993)

Words Apart: the Language of Prejudice (1996)

Chasing The Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made (1996)

Cassell Dictionary of Slang (1998, 2005)

Big Book of Filth (1999)

Big Book of Being Rude (2000)

Big Book of Bodily Functions (2001)

Talking Dirty: A Slang Phrasebook (2003)

Dictionaries of quotations

Famous Last Words (1979, 1997)

Contemporary Dictionary of Quotations (1982)

The Cynics’ Lexicon (1984)

Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations (1996 Cassell, p/b 1997)

Oral Histories

Days In The Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961-–1971 (1988)

Them: Voices from the Immigrant Community in Contemporary Britain (1990)

It: Sex Since the Sixties (1993)

Miscellaneous Publications

The Encyclopedia of Censorship (1990)

All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture (1998)

Cutting it Fine: Inside the Restaurant Business, with Andrew Parkinson (2000)

Cannabis: A History (2002)

Contributor

The Language Report, ed. Susie Dent (2005, 2006)

Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition: contributor, 'Anglophone Slang Lexicography'

Dictionary of National Biography, revised edition: contributor, 'Eric Partridge', 'Sapper [H.C. McNeile]'

Bloomsbury Good Word Guide (1988, 1990, 1994), contributing editor: Slang and Jargon entries

Consultant-

Oxford English Dictionary

References

Jump up ^ See, for example, the author biography on Green’s article " Antisemitic insults: a lexicon published in Engage, and the introduction to another audio interview, "Jonathon Green – 5th July 2007", published in The Generalist.
Jump up ^ Tonkin, Boyd (28 November 2008). "Fact and fun with the stars of geek heaven". The Independent.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Nick Groom "'I could say it 1,000 ways and they'd probably all offend'", Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 June 2000
Jump up ^ Introduction. Green, Jonathon (October 2008). Chambers Slang Dictionary. Chambers Harrap. pp. xi. ISBN 978-0-550-10439-7.
Jump up ^ Michael Smith "Sex-for-charity slur costs £40,000", Daily Telegraph, 13 June 2000

External links

Interviews and podcasts

Jonathon Green on Meet the Author UK
Interview in The Generalist
If there are only thirteen dirty words, how come this book is so big? The Word podcast with Jonathon Green.

Reviews

"Wimping it", The Times Literary Supplement, 30 June 2006
Getting off at Gateshead, By Jonathon Green, The Independent, 21 November 2008
Fact and fun with the stars of geek heaven, The Independent, 28 November 2008

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