Current slang for chitchat
It treats dictionaries covering multiple varieties of English: Encarta world English dictionary, The Grolier international dictionary, Lonely Planet travel guides, The Oxford English dictionary, and Green's dictionary of slang online. The chapter provides summaries for all modern dictionaries known for the various varieties of Asian English. Such borrowings raise the question of when a term or expression should be considered naturalized into English. An important component of Asian Englishes is lexis borrowed from indigenous languages. The chapter discusses the history and development of Asian English dictionaries in pre‐nineteenth century, nineteenth century, and early twentieth century. It brings together details of all the available lexicons of the Englishes in the Asian region, dealing first with colonial‐era lexicons before assessing dictionaries as are available for contemporary varieties of Asian English. This chapter presents an overview of the lexicographical resources for the majority of Asian English varieties. The results, now published as dictionary entries in the online version of Green's Dictionary of Slang, add greatly to our knowledge of Anglo-Indian English and reveal a need for continued dictionary work to improve upon the coverage provided by previous lexicography. The goal of the present study was to gauge the need for greater lexicographical research into Anglo-Indian English by conducting a focused lexicographical study and comparing the results against both Hobson-Jobson and the OED. This type of dictionary is commonly viewed as the pinnacle of the western lexicographical tradition and for world Englishes scholars wishing to find out detailed information about a particular lexical item in a certain variety of English, a dictionary on historical principles is by far the best type of dictionary to use, provided one exists that covers the variety in question. This article deals with the lexicography of Anglo-Indian English specifically it examines both past and contemporary work in the style of dictionary known as the ‘dictionary on historical principles’.