"With reference to certain actual and possible questions of priority and originality, it may be explained that this Word Book was begun in the San Francisco "Wasp" in the year 1881, and has been continued, in a desultory way, in several journals and periodicals. As it was no part of the author's purpose to define all the words in the language, or even to make a complete alphabetical series, the stopping-place of the book was determined by considerations of bulk. In the event of this volume proving acceptable to that part of the reading public to which in humility it is addressed-enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, good English to slang, and wit to humor-there may possibly be another if the author be spared for the compiling."
- ISBN10 1304581071
- ISBN13 9781304581075
- Publish Date 30 October 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English