 | Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.99 A look at the history of swearing. One must see what has gone before in order to truly forge ahead into a new day of excellent swearing.
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 | Slang and Euphemism, 3rd revised ed. by Richard A. Spears
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.49 If one is going to use slang, one should be sure of the appropriate usage. What better reference than a slang dictionary authored by a PhD in linguistics?
I guess it depends on how much he got out in college.
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 | NTC's Super-Mini Forbidden American English by Richard A. Spears
Buy used from: $10.00 A lexicon that explores every vulgar and profane corner of the English language. And by the same PhD! I want to party with this guy.
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 | English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear Effectively, Explained in Detail with Numerous Examples Taken From Everyday Life by Sterling Johnson
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.64 Swearing is completely ineffective if used in a grammatically incorrect sense. This book will be especially useful for non-native English speakers and most products of the United States public school system (who could also arguably be called non-native English speakers).
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 | How Not To Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms by R. W. Holder
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.01 The reviewers find it quite offensive, and that's good enough for me.
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 | Watch Your F*cking Language : How to swear effectively, explained in explicit detail and enhanced by numerous examples taken from everyday life by Sterling Johnson
Buy used from: $6.74 More on effective swearing? How can I resist?
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 | Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
Buy new: $15.39 / Used from: $0.01 Etymology is one of my favored topics to begin with - but etymology of *swearing*? Sign me up.
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 | Slang Flashcards: 1st Edition
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.48 For on-the-go quizzing.
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 | Slang Flashcards: 2nd Edition
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $13.95 "The lawn bowling tournament should be bangin' this year."
Oh yes.
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 | Roger's Profanisaurus by Viz
Buy used from: $5.35 A virtual cornucopia of extremely rude British slang.
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 | The Dictionary of Bullshit by Webb
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.37 Corporate BS. Political BS. Marketing BS. It's all here. I feel dirty using these words, but sometimes you just have to do it... might as well do it right, I say.
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 | Viva La Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe
Buy used from: $8.27 A brilliant collection. I was very pleased to see a nice showing from Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill, among many other witty luminaries.
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