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Wicked Words - A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present

Rawson Hugh

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Rawson Hugh. Wicked Words - A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present 1989 [pdf 449sc 435c. 8.66mb]

Describes the history of words used as curses, and looks at how the connotations of words change over time

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Languages - Grammar, dictionaries & phrasebooks

Content Type:

Books

Year:

1989

Edition:

1

Publisher:

Crown

Language:

english

Pages:

449

ISBN 10:

0517573342

ISBN 13:

9780517573341

File:

PDF, 8.66 MB

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english, 1989

pdf, 8.66 MB

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