Michael Adams Bücher

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories.

He then moves to the main body of the work: a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue and recorded in the accepted style of the American Dialect Society. Each chapter closes with a bibliography, and the book is rounded off with a detailed index."--BOOK JACKET.

A passionate defense of slang, jargon, argot, and other forms of nonstandard English, this marvelous volume is full of amusing and even astonishing examples of all sorts of slang.