The rhyming slang of the junkie

Lillo, Antonio

doi:10.1017/s026607840100205x

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“…Coleman 2004Coleman , 2005. With the diffusion of English worldwide, some lexicographers have compiled local lexicons such as Boontling in pioneer California (Adams 1971), Pittsburghese in contemporary Pennsylvania (Johnstone & Baumgardt 2004), and Cockney rhyming slang in London (Lillo 2001), while others have focused on various segments of society in recording the distinctive jargon of cowboys, hippies, the military, ham radio operators, and others.…”

Section: Slang Lexicographymentioning

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UrbanDictionary.com

Damaso¹,

Cotter²

2007

English Today

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In traditional English lexicography, individual dictionary editors have had ultimate control over the selection, meaning, and illustration of words and extensive collaboration with contributors has been limited. However, Internet technologies that easily permit exchanges between a user and a database have allowed a new type of dictionary online: one that is built by the collaboration of contributing end-users, allowing users who are not trained lexicographers to engage in the actual making of dictionaries. We discuss here a popular online slang dictionary, UrbanDictionary.com (UD), to illustrate how traditional lexicographic principles are joined with Web-only communication technologies to provide a context for collaborative engagement and meaning-making, and to note the many characteristics and functions shared with traditional print dictionaries. Significantly, UD captures what most traditional English dictionaries fall short of: both recording ephemeral everyday spoken language and representing popular views of meaning. By relying on the users of language to select and define words for a dictionary, UD – which defines more than one million words – has in effect influenced both access to and formulation of the lexis.

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Section: Slang Lexicographymentioning

confidence: 99%

UrbanDictionary.com

Damaso¹,

Cotter²

2007

English Today

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“…To Lillo (2001), the semantic field of drugs is 'one of the greatest growth-areas of slang in contemporary English'. Strangely enough, words from this field seem to be rare in Camfranglais.…”

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Camfranglais: A novel slang in Cameroon schools

Kouega

2003

English Today

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Camfranglais is a newly created language, a composite slang used by secondary school pupils in Cameroon, West Africa. It draws its lexicon from French, English, West African Pidgin, various Cameroonian indigenous languages, Latin, and Spanish. Secondary school pupils use it among themselves to exclude outsiders while talking about such matters of adolescent interest as food, drinks, money, sex, and physical looks. There are four sections: language in the Cameroon educational system; Camfranglais defined; an analysis of a sample Camfranglais text; and the semantic domains of Camfranglais. There is a glossary of the terms cited.

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Etymological Myths and Compound Etymologies in Rhyming Slang

Lillo

2018

English Studies

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Knowledge of how rhyming slang works has often led scholars and laypeople to assume, without a shred of evidence, that many words of unknown derivation have their origins in this form of slang. Some of these assumptions are based on the premise that, if two synonymous words or phrases rhyme, one of them must derive from the other, while others hinge on the supposed existence of a full form whose second element helps unravel the puzzle. This tendency to folk-etymologise by resorting to rhyme is also reflected in many terms resulting from a conflation of a non-rhyming slang word and an underlying rhyme, the former usually being regarded as an elliptical version of the full rhyming slang term, rather than one of its etymons. Drawing on data from a range of primary and secondary sources, this article examines the inner workings of a number of false but widely entertained rhyming slang etymologies and shows how some of the mechanisms that triggered them have long been used in the creation of genuine folk-etymological elaborations.

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The rhyming slang of the junkie

Abstract: A report on, and a glossary of, imaginative usage in the world of drug-taking.

Cited by 5 publications

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UrbanDictionary.com

UrbanDictionary.com

Camfranglais: A novel slang in Cameroon schools

Etymological Myths and Compound Etymologies in Rhyming Slang

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