JULIE COLEMAN
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199557103
- eISBN:
- 9780191719882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557103.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Lexicography
English slang dictionaries began to include terms restricted to the universities as early as 1785. Among them was the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1803), subtitled ‘A Dictionary of Terms, Academical and ...
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English slang dictionaries began to include terms restricted to the universities as early as 1785. Among them was the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1803), subtitled ‘A Dictionary of Terms, Academical and Colloquial, or Cant, which are used at the University of Cambridge’. This was followed by a second edition of Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1824), Benjamin Homer Hall's A Collection of College Words and Customs (1851), and Charles Astor Bristed's Five Years in an English University (1852). These word-lists involved much more effort than some of the hastily plagiarized throwaway glossaries of flash language discussed in earlier chapters. There are a number of reasons why dictionaries of college slang should emerge as specialized publications at such an early a date, one being that this is the language of a well-defined group: students. In addition, the vocabulary is reasonably stable: once produced, a dictionary might sell for several years or even decades with minor changes.Less
English slang dictionaries began to include terms restricted to the universities as early as 1785. Among them was the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1803), subtitled ‘A Dictionary of Terms, Academical and Colloquial, or Cant, which are used at the University of Cambridge’. This was followed by a second edition of Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1824), Benjamin Homer Hall's A Collection of College Words and Customs (1851), and Charles Astor Bristed's Five Years in an English University (1852). These word-lists involved much more effort than some of the hastily plagiarized throwaway glossaries of flash language discussed in earlier chapters. There are a number of reasons why dictionaries of college slang should emerge as specialized publications at such an early a date, one being that this is the language of a well-defined group: students. In addition, the vocabulary is reasonably stable: once produced, a dictionary might sell for several years or even decades with minor changes.
John Prest
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201755
- eISBN:
- 9780191675003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201755.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on the passage of the Local Government Act of 1858, which abolished the General Board of Health. The drafting of a Bill to amend the Public Health Act of 1848 in such a way as to ...
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This chapter focuses on the passage of the Local Government Act of 1858, which abolished the General Board of Health. The drafting of a Bill to amend the Public Health Act of 1848 in such a way as to make it possible to abolish the General Board was begun in 1857 by Palmerston's stepson, W. F. Cowper, who had succeeded Sir Benjamin Hall as President of the Board of Health. The new Act, which came into force in September 1858, was known as the Local Government Act. The Act enabled the localities to continue to take advantage of the powers contained in the Public Health Act of 1848 in the new circumstances which would exist when the General Board was finally abolished.Less
This chapter focuses on the passage of the Local Government Act of 1858, which abolished the General Board of Health. The drafting of a Bill to amend the Public Health Act of 1848 in such a way as to make it possible to abolish the General Board was begun in 1857 by Palmerston's stepson, W. F. Cowper, who had succeeded Sir Benjamin Hall as President of the Board of Health. The new Act, which came into force in September 1858, was known as the Local Government Act. The Act enabled the localities to continue to take advantage of the powers contained in the Public Health Act of 1848 in the new circumstances which would exist when the General Board was finally abolished.
