Mar 2008
(46 min)
Tom Dalzell, author of “Vice Slang” discusses on slang.
Since 1983, Dalzell has devoted “a considerable portion” of his life to the study of American slang, and is recognized as a national expert. He has authored two books on slang, Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam-Webster, 1996) and The Slang of Sin (Merriam-Webster, 1998). Dalzell is the senior editor of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, a two-volume dictionary to be published by Routledge of London in 2005.
