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enormously richer, and a great deal more of it has survived. One need but glance at the vocabulary in the last edition of Cassell's Dictionary^[1] or at such works as Gaston Esnault's "Le Poilu Tel Qu'il se Parle"^[2] or Karl Bergmann's "Wie der Feldgraue Spricht"^[3] to note the great difference. The only work which pretends to cover the subject of American war-slang is "New Words Self-Defined," by Prof. C. Alphonso Smith, of the Naval Academy.^[4] It is pieced out with much English slang, and not a little French slang.

1. London, 1919.
2. Paris, 1919.
3. Giessen, 1916.
4. New York, 1919.