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This glossary is presented as the last appendix to the volume.
The second and longer glossary (containing 726 entries), called The Argot , was compiled in 1950 by a long-term prisoner known only as Thirty-five (from the custom of referring to a prisoner by the last two digits of his official number).
(GAO Budget Glossary)
[Glossary of Geology and Related Sciences, American Geological Institute, 1957.]
It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.
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