Eric Partridge in a Pear Tree
Eric Partridge (1894–1979) wrote several flawed but popular and influential dictionaries in the mid-twentieth century, including A Dictionary of Slang … Eric Partridge in a Pear Tree
Tag: Kripke Collection
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Slang and the Roma People
Content note: This blog post contains a book title which uses a historical term for the Roma people now increasingly … Slang and the Roma People
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Sunday School Slang
Roy L. Smith (1887–1963) served as a Methodist minister for 32 years, toiled for eight years as editor of The … Sunday School Slang
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Looking at Slang through Steve Allen’s Glasses
Madeline Kripke’s phenomenal collection abounds with big dictionaries, old dictionaries, and big old dictionaries, but it also includes some very … Looking at Slang through Steve Allen’s Glasses
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A Dictionary for Blind Musicians
After opening its tattered brown cover, all I could see, at first, was an apparently blank white book, but then … A Dictionary for Blind Musicians
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Judging a Book by Its Endpapers
Given Madeline Kripke’s love of English slang and English dictionaries, we reasonably expect to find copies of all the major … Judging a Book by Its Endpapers
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Unpacking the Kripke Collection
I first met Madeline Kripke at the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) held at the … Unpacking the Kripke Collection