Tony Thorne

Tony Thorne (born 1950 in Cairo, Egypt) is a British author, linguist and lexicographer specialising in slang, jargon and cultural history. He is a leading authority on language change and language usage in the UK and across the English-speaking world.

Career Thorne attended Hampton School and the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Most recently he has compiled lexicons of language relating to Brexit and populism, recorded and commented on new language associated with the Coronavirus pandemic and new language used by GenZ and TikTokers

Works

Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Bloomsbury, first published 1990; latest (4th) edition published 2014 Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English, Little, Brown Book Group, 2009 , published in a revised paperback edition entitled The 100 Words That Make the English, Abacus, 2011 Shoot the Puppy, Penguin, London 2007 Madame Tussaud, Short Books, London, 2004 Children of the Night, Victor Gollancz, London, 1999 Countess Dracula, Bloomsbury, London, 1997 Fads, Fashions & Cults, Bloomsbury, London 1993

Contributor

Ed J Coleman, Global English Slang, Routledge, London, 2014 Ed M Jazbec, European Perspectives Volume 3, Number 1, 2011 The Extraordinary Art of Laurie Lipton, beinArt Publishing, Brunswick, Victoria, 2010 Ed K Malmkjaer, Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia, Routledge, London, 2009 (with Neil Murray) (eds) Multicultural Perspectives on English Language and Literature, Tallinn Pedagogical University/King's College London, Tallinn, London, 2004 Malcolm McKesson, Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage, Heck Editions, New York, 1996