Which is preferred - nom de plume, pseudonym, or pen name? What are neologisms, disguised conjunc...

From abdabs to zitFrom pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century)From She'll be apples...

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reve...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become p...

Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, musi...

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. force...

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressio...

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xv, 804 pp. Reprint of the second ed...