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The anatomy of swearing

Print Book, English, 2001
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001
xi, 370 pages ; 24 cm
9780812217643, 0812217640
1016283439
Introduction: why swearing?
The antiquity of swearing
Cursing
The origin of swearing: the curse and the oath
Why do men swear? The physiology and psychology of swearing
Words used in swearing: their sources and the forms of swearing
The history of swearing: before the Reformation
Swearing in Shakespeare
Swearing in the seventeenth century
Swearing in the seventeenth century: as observed in the Urquhart and Motteux translation of Rabelais
Swearing in the eighteenth century
Swearing in the nineteenth century
Bloody: the natural history of a word
Damn!
The four-letter words
Olla-Podrida
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1967