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Swearing : a social history of foul language, oaths and profanity in English

Author
  • Hughes, Geoffrey
Additional Author(s)
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Publisher
Oxford: Blackwell, 1991
Language
English
ISBN
0631187359
Series
The Language library
Subject(s)
  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE-SLANG-HISTORY
  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE-SOCIAL ASPECTS
  • SWEARING-HISTORY
Notes
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Abstract
Bibliography: p. 268-274
Physical Dimension
Number of Page(s)
ix, 283 p.
Dimension
23
Other Desc.
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# Accession No. Call Number Location Status
1.04472/93427 Hug SLibrary - 7th FloorAvailable

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