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Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 38:3 (2011) ► pp.389–395

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Book review

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. By Julie Coleman

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 | University of Alberta, Edmonton
Published online: 24 October 2011
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