My book is getting a fair bit of media coverage just now, so I thought it would be useful to draw the links together (this is for my benefit more than anyone else's). The Life of Slang has been reviewed in We Love This Book, The Observer, The Independent and (behind a paywall) in the Sunday Times. I also got a mention in The Sun, but don't take those dates too seriously. There's a review on Mantex which misunderstands the relationship between UK and US troops in WWI: the earliest Americans in the war joined British forces, so naturally they picked up existing British slang -- you can access Jonathan Lighter's glossary to look at the evidence if you're a subscriber. I've been mentioned in various blogs, including That's Books, The Virtual Linguist, WilliamFlew and The blog formerly known as ... English Language @ SFX.
Incidentally, here are the blogs mentioned in the book: Bock the Robber and Gorilla Convict.
I've written about slang on the OxfordWords blog, The Huffington Post and We Love This Book, and you can also hear me on The Today programme. There are podcasts on YouTube on What Is Slang?, How Slang Spreads and 27 Ways to Say Groovy.
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