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The Dictionary of American Regional English - English
URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

The ongoing project that ''seeks to document the varieties of English that are <B>not</B> found everywhere in the United States - those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another, that we learn at home rather than at school, or that are part of our oral rather than our written culture.''

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A Web of On-Line Dictionaries (Yourdictionary.com) - English
URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

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Links to hundreds of online dictionaries. Site also leads to Multiple Dictionary Search Engines, Multilingual Dictionaries, An Index of Dictionary Indices, Specialty Dictionaries, and other resources.

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NetLingo.com - The Internet Language Dictionary - English
URL: http://www.netlingo.com/

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More than a thousand terms of online jargon. You can look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand. Also Country Code Identifier, Web Design Coloring Book, etc.

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Wizard's dic - English
URL: http://www.hurricane.net/~wizard/19a.html

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Full dictionary of the gay slang.

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A Prisoner's Dictionary - English
URL: http://dictionary.prisonwall.org/

A dictionary of prison slang.

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Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade - English
URL: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/

The ability to understand current drug-related street terms is an invaluable tool for law enforcement, public health, and other criminal justice professionals who work with the public. The Street Terms database contains over 2,000 street terms that refer to specific drug types or drug activity.

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Flamespeak - The LBGT Lexicon - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Cafe/1017/lexicon.html

Flamespeak - The gay dictionary.

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Feather Foot's Aussie Slang Page - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/4699/

Australian Slang Page. This site is constantly being updated. I have created this site in the hopes that all those who can't follow the Aussie conversation will be able to make reference to it and try to keep up with these fabulous sayings which have grown a part of the Australian language.........Aussie Slang.

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Australian slang dictionary - English
URL: http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

Australian slang dictionary - read this and feel at home on your first day Down Under.

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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes - Russian
URL: gopher://ftp.std.com/00/obi/book/Dictionary/Hardboiled_Slang_Glossary.txt

A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang. Compiled by William Denton.

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IPRC: Dictionary of Street Drug Slang Terms - English
URL: http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/slang/home.html

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The Indiana Prevention Resource Center on-line dictionary contains more than 3,000 street drug slang terms from the Indiana Prevention Resource Center files, with more than 1,200 additions from the National Drug and Crime Clearinghouse slang term list.

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Hardboiled Slang - English
URL: http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

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Contains big glossary of hardboiled slang.

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Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK - English
URL: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

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A dictionary of English slang and British colloquialisms currently used in the UK, including over 3000 expressions.

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New words in English - English
URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.html

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Neologisms in modern English language.

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Common American slang - 280 expressions - English
URL: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/slang/

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Guess the meaning of these slang expressions. You can see the answers right away. Over 280 commonly used slang expressions.

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Everyday English and Slang in Ireland - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8662/irish.html

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A dictionary of irish slang and phrases.

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London slang - English
URL: http://www.londonslang.com/

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Cockneys' rhyming slang, simple slang and britishisms -- all in one based on standard English.

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A Seattle Lexicon: Lingo from the Far Corner - English
URL: http://www.callihan.com/seattle/lexicon.htm

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Seattle and Northwest lingo, slang phrases, placenames, shorthand expressions, nicknames, including sections on geography, streets & beats, places & spaces, events & celebrations, sports, coffee, fish, misc., and local links

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Dictionary of Australian Slang and Sayings - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Breakers/8092/ozslang.htm

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A collection of Australian slang, sayings and phrases, from the old, disappearing traditional words, to the present day.

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Aussie Slang - English
URL: http://www.taunet.net.au/marlinw/strine.html

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Australia, perhaps like other countries, has a unique form of slang known as strine. The term strine comes from a poor pronounciation of Australian. That is to say it is pronounced Ah-strine. This an an Alphabetical listing of slang terms and the relevant meanings and any other related information to the word/term.

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