Robert L. Chapman (1920–2002)

Auteur van American Slang

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Robert L. Chapman has spent much of his professional career editing numerous reference texts, including thesauruses and dictionaries. An ardent collector of slang as well as other words, Chapman was the revising editor of the fourth edition of Roget's International Thesaurus and the supervising toon meer editor of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary. Chapman, a retired Professor of English from Drew University, has also edited Roget A to Z, The Dictionary of American Slang, Concise Roget's International Thesaurus, and the Thesaurus of American Slang. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Robert L. Chapman, ed. Robert L. Chapman, Robert L. Ph.D. Chapman

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American Slang (2010) 466 exemplaren

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Thesaurus of American slang (1989) 52 exemplaren

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ROGET'S POCKET THESAURUS 1 exemplaar

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Roget's International Thesaurus (1852) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 3,801 exemplaren

The Concise Roget's International Thesaurus (5th Edition) (1986) — sommige edities — 240 exemplaren

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Officiële naam: Chapman, Robert Lundquist
Geboortedatum: 1920-12-28
Overlijdensdatum: 2002-01-27
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Huntington, West Virginia, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Woonplaatsen: Madison, New Jersey, USA
Opleiding: University of Michigan
Beroepen: English professor
editor
lexicographer
Organisaties: Cornell University
Oswego State Teachers College
Wilkes College
Drew University
United States Army
Funk and Wagnalls (toon alle 7)
Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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The Dictionary of American Slang door Robert L. Chapman

Un "must" per chi traduce slang americano. Di facilissima consultazione e utilissimo.
Segnalato da Rosaria Contestabile

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Biblit | 2 andere besprekingen | May 12, 2010 |

American slang door Robert L. Chapman

Overall I find the book unsatisfying, even though it's fun to browse. For example, it doesn't have "coon's age", a term I've always wondered about--is the coon an animal or a person? Etymologies are incomplete or non-existent, some of the terms are more idiom than slang ("man-about-town"), and some are regular dictionary words (to marry, as to join or bring together).

All of these nit-picks may mean I should shell out for the unabridged edition, but I think a better job could have been done on the abridgment.… (meer)

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IreneF | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 6, 2008 |

New Dictionary of American Slang door Harold Dictionary of American Slang Wentworth

This was a present from my dear American pal to counteract my plague of questions.

I read it now, to look up 'kudos' but it's not there! It is however, in the OED!

Never look a gift horse in the mouth = neigh!

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