When we talk about the argot of drug users, we mean their vocabulary or the collection of slang words and phrases used by one drug user to communicate with another—often to the exclusion of non-users. In some instances, argot extends to the...

A secret language, roughly corresponding to cant, used by beggars and thieves in medieval France. More broadly, argot may refer to any specialized vocabulary or set of expressions ( jargon) used by a particular group or class and not widely understood...

Argot (French and Spanish for "slang") is primarily slang used by various groups, including but not limited to thieves and other criminals, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot...

In the article in the Style section about Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer's wife, Joanna Hare Breyer, the writer has muddled heraldic terminology. The term "crest" is properly applied only to one part of a coat of arms, that which is above the shield....

Write To Kill by Daniel Pennac Harvill pounds 10.99 French crime-writer Daniel Pennac, formerly a teacher, writes from the heart of downtown Paris, from the 19th arrondissement of Belleville, to be precise (London's Brixton is the closest we come to its working-...

CARSON CITY— As the Legislature commences this week, and some of you eager readers may be thinking of a Carson City career or a capital interaction of a lesser kind, perhaps some rules for doing business in the center of the Nevada political universe might...

The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It's outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles.The Reaper...