Print publication did not mean the end of research. The book won America’s Dartmouth Prize for the outstanding non-fiction work of 2011 and was cited, among many positive reviews, as ‘Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been … or is ever likely to be’ (Julie Coleman, Journal of English Language and Linguistics).
These were supported by some 410,000 examples of usage. Its three volumes offered c.53,000 headwords, in which were nested 110,000 slang terms. GDoS Online represents a digital development of the original print edition of Green’s Dictionary of Slang ( GDoS) which appeared in 2010 (2011 in the US). Green's Dictionary of Slang Online will be launched on October 12, 2016 at. (For more, read the coverage in Quartz, and also see the dictionary's blog.) The good news is that headwords, etymologies, and definitions are freely available through online searches, while the full entries, with voluminous citations for each sense of each word, are available for an annual subscription fee. To put it plain, it’s copacetic.ĭespite some tough sledding along the way, GDoS now sees the light of day online. In the meantime, his monument to the inventiveness of speakers from Auckland to Oakland takes its place as the pièce de résistance of English slang studies. Green plans to put his dictionary online for continuous revision, which is indeed the direction that many major reference works (including the O.E.D.) are now taking.
It's a never-ending challenge to keep up with the latest developments in the world of slang, but that is the lexicographer’s lot.
As I wrote in the New York Times Book Review at the time, This is excellent news, coming more than five years after Jonathon Green published the print edition of his exhaustive three-volume reference work. Today, Green's Dictionary of Slang ( GDoS for short) launches its online version.
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