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Geoffrey Hughes. Swearing. A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English. In the series The Language Library. Oxford: Blackwell. 1991. Pp. xii + 284. US$24.95 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

T.K. Pratt
T.K. Pratt*
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 275 - 278
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1994

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