Benjamin Franklin was the first to compile a list of more than 200, including oiled, stewed, stiff, soaked, cherry-merry and nimptopiscal . The hundreds of citations in a dozen senses bring the nuanced history of the slang term, and through it the history of American race relations, into focus. Takes guts, too. Take offense at the users, not the dictionaries. You do not need this book if you have Microsoft Bookshelf 97, but some of us get an ergonomic kick out of a book that is held and read rather than clicked on and accessed.
Writing is the means by which a computer provides the results of processing.
All of us content providers know that. That's back when there were radio listings. The 1991 entry, about about , noted how the vogue phrase what it's all about spawned the practice of putting messages in nouns. Nineties are about survival. It's about the absurdity of life.