Harold Wentworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 699284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Wentworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Wentworth |
| SIGNATURE | WENTWORTH H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dictionary of American slang
More than 2000 brand-new slang terms and familiar expressions that have acquired new meanings appear in the supplement. Altogether the volume contains more than 22,000 definitions.
The Lexicography of Slang
Moola' and 'Moo,' Recent Terms for Money
American Dialect Dictionary
Concerning the American Dialect Dictionary
The Neo-Pseudo-Suffix '-eroo
IN CERTAIN circles-notably radio, sports, advertising, and motion pictures-one often does not pay the check, take a dive, tell a joke, or listen to swing music. Instead he pays the checkeroo, takes a diveroo, tells a jokeroo, and listens to swingaroo. Do such terms as these merely end with meaningless extra syllables? Sometimes they do, but not always. There is a perceptible semantic variation between the new forms with tails and the old acaudate…
On Adding the Suffix of Agency, -Er, to Adverbs
Survival of 'Jitney
Biography of the Word 'Insinuendo
"Some Word-Products of "Technocracy
Concerning the American Dialect Dictionary
The Neo-Pseudo-Suffix '-eroo
IN CERTAIN circles-notably radio, sports, advertising, and motion pictures-one often does not pay the check, take a dive, tell a joke, or listen to swing music. Instead he pays the checkeroo, takes a diveroo, tells a jokeroo, and listens to swingaroo. Do such terms as these merely end with meaningless extra syllables? Sometimes they do, but not always. There is a perceptible semantic variation between the new forms with tails and the old acaudate…
On Adding the Suffix of Agency, -Er, to Adverbs
"Some Word-Products of "Technocracy
"Some Word-Products of "Technocracy
Survival of 'Jitney
Biography of the Word 'Insinuendo
On Adding the Suffix of Agency, -Er, to Adverbs
The Neo-Pseudo-Suffix '-eroo
IN CERTAIN circles-notably radio, sports, advertising, and motion pictures-one often does not pay the check, take a dive, tell a joke, or listen to swing music. Instead he pays the checkeroo, takes a diveroo, tells a jokeroo, and listens to swingaroo. Do such terms as these merely end with meaningless extra syllables? Sometimes they do, but not always. There is a perceptible semantic variation between the new forms with tails and the old acaudate…
Concerning the American Dialect Dictionary
American Dialect Dictionary
Moola' and 'Moo,' Recent Terms for Money
The Lexicography of Slang
Dictionary of American slang
More than 2000 brand-new slang terms and familiar expressions that have acquired new meanings appear in the supplement. Altogether the volume contains more than 22,000 definitions.
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (2 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (2 works) · Suffix (2 works) · Word (group theory (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works)