Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler.
Ostler, Rosemarie.
2003
PE2838 .O88 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler.
Author
Ostler, Rosemarie.
ISBN
0195182545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195161467 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PE2838 .O88 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
428/.00973
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
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Introduction : a century's worth of old (and new) words
1900-1919 : Modern times
The twenties : flappers and flaming youth
The thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville
The forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe
The fifties : hipsters in Squaresville
The sixties : getting with it
The seventies : pet rocks and plumbers
The eighties : tubular times
The nineties : dot-comming into Y2K
Afterword : good-bye to a great century
Bibliography
Index
Picture credits.

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