... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Slang Today and Yesterday, 1 933 : George Routledge & Sons, London Slang Today and Yesterday, 1 933 , quoting Greenough and Kittredge, Words and their Ways in English Speech, ... in formal and dignified writing and in professional speaking, a vivid and extensive slang is perhaps preferable to a jejune and meagre vocabulary of standard English; on the other hand, it will ... cliché’s and long-windedness To enrich the language To give solidity and concreteness to the abstract and the idealistic, and nearness to the xvii Observations on slang and unconventional English...