The Septic's Companion | British Slang Dictionary

A British slang dictionary with audio pronunciations

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The Septic's Companion is an A-to-Zed dictionary of British Slang words and phrases, written by a Scotsman living in America. You may know it better by the title it had for the previous ten years, "The English-to-American Dictionary". The online dictionary is all free; the book contains all that and more riveting British stuff.

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People regularly ask me what the best way to read this dictionary offline is - at the moment, the best way is to buy the Amazon Kindle edition and use it on a Kindle - with that, you can take it abroad and read it without an internet connection.