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Taboo words in print

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Roshan McArthur
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Abstract

A review of Jess Sheidlower's ‘The F-Word’ and Reinhold Aman's ‘Maledicta XI’, together with a chronology of the lexicography of swearing

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 50 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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