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Thanks to Bill for pointing this out: In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that U.S. slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. “Jazz” and “poker”, “sucker” and “scam” all derive from Irish...

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In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish...

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I received this book weeks ago, and was amazed to have someone write about a suspicion I have had for years, that the Irish ( of which I am one)had made a large and unforgetable contribution to the language of American everyday English. Mr....

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