Author: Alexander Johnstone WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Glossary of Colloquial, Slang and Technical Terms in Use on the Stock Exchange and in the Money Market
Author: Alexander Johnstone WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Glossary of Colloquial, Slang and Technical Terms in Use on the Stock Exchange and in the Money Market
Author: Alexander Johnstone WilsonPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230377650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... a certain sum of money annually, for a fixed period of years, to the company carrying on the business. These grants are called "subsidies." Subvention.--Practically equivalent to Subsidy. Take the Rate, To--See Contango. Tars.--Tharsis Copper Mining Company Shares. Tender.--A method of receiving applications for stock of a new loan usually adopted by Colonial Governments and by British municipal authorities. An issue of a 4 per cent. stock is announced at a minimum price of, say, 104, but tenders up to any price an applicant may think proper are received, with the result that often, by clever engineering, a very high price is obtained for the issue. Tilbury.--London, Tilbury, & Southend Railway. 194 TRANSFER Transfer--As a verb means that the owner of a security has handed on the ownership thereof to someone else. When a holder of London & North-Western Railway stock sells his stock, it has to be "transferred" in the books of the company from the name of the seller to that of the buyer. The document in which this change is effected is called a " transfer," and has to bear a stamp proportioned to the amount or market value of the stock transferred. Both buyer and seller have to sign this document in the presence, in England, Ireland, and Wales, of one witness; in Scotland two are often necessary. The paper is then forwarded to the offices of the company, whose registrar effects the changes in the books which transfer the ownership. On doing this a "certificate" (g.v.) is issued to attest the fact that the purchaser is now the owner of so many shares or of so much "stock" in the company. Transfer, Blank.--A deed of transfer in which no buyer's name is inserted, but which has been executed, i.e. signed and witnessed by the seller, is called...
Slang
Author: Eric PartridgePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317432150
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly used slang, there are sections that give the reader insight into more unusual areas such as Cockney slang, slang in journalism and slang in commerce, as well as slang used by sailors, the law and the church. The book will be of interest to scholars and the general readers who take an interest in language.
The American Language
Author: Henry Louis MenckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The American Language
Author: H. L. MenckenPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616402598
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
"Replica of the 1921 'revised and enlarged' second edition"--Jacket
Classified Guide to Technical and Commercial Books
Author: Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdA History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie ColemanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.