Unlike Adams, Winchester wrote that GDoS scored strongly against HDAS in almost every regard, but his view was disputed in a response by Geoffrey Nunberg of Language Log, who claimed that Lighter's dictionary was better organized and often had earlier citations which GDoS missed. Ī similar comparison to HDAS was made by Simon Winchester in the New York Review of Books. Michael Adams wrote in the journal Dictionaries that, though the dictionary was good overall, there were problems with the clarity and focus of definitions and the accuracy of etymology which he felt left him unable to unequivocally recommend GDoS to the exclusion of previous similar dictionaries (such as the Historical Dictionary of American Slang ( HDAS) of Jonathan Lighter) as others had done.
Michael Quinion of the website World Wide Words wrote of the dictionary's approach that "In its historical approach, GDoS matches the Oxford English Dictionary and it’s not hyperbolic to suggest that it’s the OED of slang." Īcademic reviews of the print edition also generally praised the dictionary, though there were some points of criticism.
It received the 2012 Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association as a reference work of outstanding quality and significance. The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, and The New York Times among others praised the dictionary for its breadth and the quality of the research. Upon release of the first print edition, critical reception was broadly positive. However, having found a suitable partner through an appeal posted on the website Language Log, an updated and fully searchable online edition of the dictionary was launched in 2016 as an independent publication.
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Though Green hoped to release a full and regularly updated online edition shortly thereafter, due to a legal dispute with the dictionary's new publishers, only a limited release as an Oxford Reference ebook was possible, with no updates made. In 2009 the dictionary was ready to be published in its first edition, and was released in 2010 in Great Britain by Hachette (the new owners of Chambers Harrap) and in 2011 in North America by the Oxford University Press. Work on the dictionary continued throughout the 2000s, with a second edition of Cassell's Dictionary of Slang appearing as an interim work in 2005 and, after the acquisition of Cassell by Chambers, a third edition under the new title of the Chambers Slang Dictionary in 2008. Green turned down an offer from Routledge to revise Partridge's dictionary in order to embark on his own work of far greater magnitude, helped by the bequest of his deceased uncle which allowed Green to spend much more money on the necessary lexicographical research than his publisher was able to provide. Cassell immediately commissioned a sequel with full historical quotations as in the OED. The first edition of the single-volume Cassell's Dictionary of Slang appeared in 1998. In 1993 Cassell commissioned Green to create a new dictionary, this time broadening the focus to include slang terms from approximately 1500 onwards, but without citations.
The dictionary's direct ancestor is Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1937–84) which originally inspired Green to write his own dictionary of slang, published as The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang in 1984. Jonathon Green, the dictionary's author, considers the work to be in the lineage of English slang dictionaries going back to Francis Grose's 18th-century Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and further to the 1566 glossary Caveat for Common Cursetours by Thomas Harman.
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