New Yawk tawk
Subtitle: a dictionary of New York City expressions
By: Robert Hendrickson.
Series: Facts on File dictionary of American regional expressions ;; v. 5
Publisher: Facts on File; Infobase Holdings, Inc.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Dictionaries.; English language -- New York (State) -- New York -- Terms and phrases -- Dictionaries.; English language -- Spoken English -- New York (State) -- New York -- Dictionaries.; English language -- New York (State) -- New York -- Slang -- Dictionaries.; Americanisms -- New York (State) -- New York -- Dictionaries.; Figures of speech -- Dictionaries.; New York (N.Y.) -- Languages -- Dictionaries.
Other titles: Dictionary of New York City expressions
Description: "New Yawk Tawk is a dictionary of the ethnically diverse and culturally dynamic expressions of the city and its surroundings. It offers more than 2,000 entries, tracing them to their roots in a city defined by its population of immigrants from around the world.

In this fifth volume in the Facts On File Dictionary of American Regional Expressions series, Robert Hendrickson draws on advertising, magazines, movies, newspapers, legends, the works of writers like Jimmy Breslin, Damon Runyon and Mario Puzo, and even conversations overheard on the subway to provide a linguistic guide to the greatest city in the world."--BOOK JACKET.