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Swearing in English

Dave Wilton, Thursday, February 01, 2007

McEnery, Tony. Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity, and Power from 1586 to the Present. Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2006.

A scholarly look at swearing.

Filed under: Profanity/Swearing/Euphemism

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