Note 52 — THE HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE.

“All our newspapers contain more or less colloquial words; in fact, there seems no other way of expressing certain ideas connected with passing events of every-day life, with the requisite force and piquancy. In the English newspapers the same thing is observable, and certain of them contain more of the class denominated Slang words than our own.”—Bartlett’s Americanisms, p. x., 1859.