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Welcome to another edition of the Language Headlines mini-cast from Away with Words.

I'm Grant Barrett. Last year British slang lexicographer Jonathan Green struck a deal with the publisher Chambers Herat to create an exhaustive

dictionary of English slang.

Now, says the London Telegraph, the first fruit of that relationship has appeared in the form

of the Chambers Slang Dictionary.

The main sources of Slang Green says have remained the same, sex and sexual organs, drinking,

and terms of abuse.

But there are always innovations. The telegraph offers some of them.

Boiler House, modern British rhyming slang for spouse, jawsing, U.S. teen slang for lying, and muzzy, an Irish word for a naughty child.

In the Paper Cutts blog of the New York Times, Jennifer Schusler reviews On the Dot by Nicholas

and Alexander Humez. It's an exhaustive look at the

period or the dot that little piece of punctuation that does so much. And I do

mean exhaustive. The book is so digressive and sometimes so far afield of its subject matter

that you might find yourself flipping to the front to make sure you're still reading the same book.

In the reader discussion of that book, I discovered the Finney, F-I-N-I-I- F I N I this is a new piece of punctuation

created by Dave Rosenthal an assistant managing editor at the Baltimore Sun the

Finney is a square instead of a circle.

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