11 reviews A retrospective of Englands underground culture of the 1960s, through the recollections and reflections of 101 people who were part of it.

And inevitably, we bring together the themes of the Oxford English Dictionary, canonical literature and comic-book porn. Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 19611971 by Jonathon Green(Contributor) 4.04 We talk about the benefits of the internet for this work, as well as the limitations of user-generated alternatives and the challenges they pose to the professional scholar. In this interview we do not attempt to summarise the A-Z of slang (nor even the C-F), but we do talk about slang's relation to culture, the history of its lexicography, and the day-to-day work of its researchers. It is, however, also important for what it tells us about how people live, interact and think, and is worthy of serious study. Before there was any written language, the visual renderings of life on cave walls recorded our. Slang's definition is itself perhaps elusive, but to Green it is 'counter-language', by analogy with 'counter-culture', and possesses the same vivid qualities: it is irreverent, subversive and fun. DAYS IN THE LIFE Later Edition by Jonathon Green (Author) 27 ratings ISBN-13: 978-0749390129 ISBN-10: 0749390123 Why is ISBN important Share Add to book club Not in a club Learn more Hardcover 35.99 Paperback 11.68 - 17.47 Other Sellers from Buy used:: 11.51 Used: Very Good Details Sold by HPB Inc. During this time he has accumulated a database of over half a million citations for more than 100,000 words and phrases, and these are the basis for the vast, authoritative and widely acclaimed Green's Dictionary of Slang (Hodder Education, 2010), winner of the Dartmouth Medal as the American Library Association's 'outstanding reference work of the year'.

Over the last thirty years, Jonathon Green has established himself as a major figure in lexicography, specialising in English slang.

Days in the Life by Jonathon Green