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An encyclopedia of swearing : the social history of oaths, profanity, foul language, and ethnic slurs in the English-speaking world / Geoffrey Hughes.
LIBRA PE3724.O3 H84 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Geoffrey, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Obscene words--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- English language--Slang--Dictionaries.
- English language--Slang.
- Swearing.
- Invective.
- Blessing and cursing.
- English language--Obscene words.
- Blessing and cursing--Dictionaries.
- Invective--Dictionaries.
- Swearing--Dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 573 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2006]
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-522) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0765612313
- OCLC:
- 60323487
- Publisher Number:
- 9780765612311
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