Bad Words
And What They Say About Us
$18.14
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2019
Summary
Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be insulted as a ‘snowflake’ or an ‘expert’ is arguably worse than being called a **** or a **** or even a ****.
So what are today’s ‘bad words’ and how are they different from yesterday’s taboo expressions? This entertaining guide to the shifting sands of bad language is indispensable in an increasingly divided world in which abuse becomes …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472141576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472141571 |
| Author: | Philip Gooden |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
”… while the low-hanging sound of ‘bollocks’ seems to imitate the thing it describes.” If that low-hanging sound is music to your ears, Bad Words has plenty.– Times Literary Supplement
”… while the low-hanging sound of ‘bollocks’ seems to imitate the thing it describes.” If that low-hanging sound is music to your ears, Bad Words has plenty. - Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Philip Gooden
Philip Gooden is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He writes books about language as well as historical crime novels. The former include Who’s Whose? A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, The Story of English, and (as co-author) Idiomantics and The Word at War. He has been nominated for a CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.
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