MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPE2838$b.O88 2003
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100 1 $aOstler, Rosemarie.
245 10 $aDewdroppers, waldos, and slackers :$ba decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century /$cRosemarie Ostler.
246 30 $aDecade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2003.
300 $axv, 239 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aEnglish language$zUnited States$xGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.
650 0 $aEnglish language$y20th century$xGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.
650 0 $aEnglish language$zUnited States$xSlang$xDictionaries.
650 0 $aEnglish language$y20th century$xSlang$xDictionaries.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xObsolete words.
650 0 $aAmericanisms.
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