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To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.
As early as 1904, G. & C. Merriam, of Springfield, Massachusetts, who claimed to be the literal publishing descendants of Noah Webster's lexicographical projects, attempted to restrain the sale of other dictionaries with Webster in the title.
From his commentary it is clear that Thirty-five, when compiling his glossary, had access to a number of books, including Partridge's Slang To-day and Yesterday and the 1945 edition of The Australian Language . His more expansive glosses focus primarily on lexicographical matters, including some etymological speculation.
As a consequence of all this deadwood, we are denied useful lexicographical information, like the fact that chapter and capital are cognates.
It is more than a slang dictionary: Simes's own lexicographical analysis of the terms is detailed and impressive, and he also provides a fifty-two page essay on the history of the literature and language of crime and the underworld.