Slang Rules!: A Practical Guide for English Learners

by Orin Hargraves, Anthony Jenkins (Illustrator)

An American English slang guide. Explains which rules of grammar change (and are sometimes ignored), which words and phrases may be considered inappropriate or offensive, and common ways pronunciations changes when slang is used.

185 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

Orin Hargraves is a native and current resident of Colorado. He graduated from the University of Chicago (BA with Honors) in 1977. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the 1980s. He is the author of three guidebooks in the Culture Shock! series: Morocco, London, and Chicago. He began his career in lexicography while living in London in the early 1990s. He has since written numerous articles and books about language, as well as contributing to dozens of dictionaries from publishers internationally. At present he lives in Niwot, Colorado and teaches writing at CU-Boulder. He is past president of the Dictionary Society of North America. He writes the monthly "Language Lounge" column for VisualThesaurus.com. His fiction is available on Amazon Kindle.

Reviews

[Russell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful.