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54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The World Is Ending

Jonathan Green is one of the preeminent lexicographers of our generation. Author of mammoth three volume dictionary of slang and other works like Sounds and Furies. Has been doing it for 40 odd years, started off because he saw a gap between his work and Eric Partridge's.

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