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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://plymouth.worldcat.org/oclc/233798803 Title: Slang : the people's poetry Author: Michael Adams Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780195314632 0195314638 OCLC:233798803

  
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Slang : the people's poetry

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