Fifty Years Among the New Words A Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941-1991

Fifty Years Among the New Words looks at the new words of the past five decades, providing a fascinating demonstration of the change in word patterns and social norms that has taken place. American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has for fifty years included a regular collection of neologisms called 'Among the New Words'. Complete documentation is given for all citations and both British and American sources have been consulted.Algeo, John is the author of 'Fifty Years Among the New Words A Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941-1991' with ISBN 9780521449717 and ISBN 0521449715.