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OCLC. 499105143. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by the noted lexicographer of the English language Eric Partridge. The first edition was published in 1937 and seven editions were eventually published by Partridge. An eighth edition was published in 1984, [1] after Partridge's death ...
Eric Partridge. Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 – 1 June 1979) was a New Zealand – British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II.
ERIC provides access to 1.5 million bibliographic records (citations, abstracts, and other pertinent data) of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added every week. A key component of ERIC is its collection of grey literature in education, which is largely available in full text in Adobe PDF ...
The dictionary's direct ancestor is Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1937–84) which originally inspired Green to write his own dictionary of slang, published as The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang in 1984. [3] [4]
Eric I of Norway (Eric Bloodaxe), the second king of Norway. Eric II of Norway, the king of Norway from 1280 until 1299. Eric III of Norway, also Eric VII of Denmark and Eric XIII of Sweden. Eiríkr Hákonarson, earl of Lade, ruler of Norway and earl of Northumbria. Erik the Red, the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson.
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities, including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
www.catb.org /esr /. esr.ibiblio.org. Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. [1] In the 1990s, he edited and updated the ...
Eric "E. D." Donald Hirsch Jr. / h ɜːr ʃ / (born March 22 1928) is an American educator, literary critic, and theorist of education. [1] He is professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Virginia .