Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers building codes and new and extended boxed

and new and extended boxed features provide additional insights and emphasis

and Browning's own final corrections to the text: eighty-nine emendations to accidentals

EAN: 9781259585517

beautifully illustrated with hundreds of historical photographs and sixteen pages of color plates

Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers building codes and new and extended boxedEvery era of the twentieth century from the "Roaring Twenties" to the "Me Decade" brought its own fads and trends and the language to go with them: fresh youth slang, up to the minute buzzwords, and colorful catch phrases. Most of this new vocabulary exploded into the vernacular, only to fizzle a few years later as newer trends and more current events demanded their own terminology. Giving yesterday's words another chance to sparkle before they retire