Bad Words: And What They Say About Us
Author:   Philip Gooden
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
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9781472141576


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Philip Gooden
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Robinson
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781472141576


ISBN 10:   1472141571
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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. . . while the low-hanging sound of 'bollocks' seems to imitate the thing it describes. If that low-hanging sound is music to your ears, Bad Words has plenty. * Times Literary Supplement *


. . . while the low-hanging sound of 'bollocks' seems to imitate the thing it describes. If that low-hanging sound is music to your ears, Bad Words has plenty. - Times Literary Supplement


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PHILIP GOODEN is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He writes books about language as well as historical crime novels. The former include Who's Whose? A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, The Story of English, and (as co-author) Idiomantics and The Word at War. He has been nominated for a CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.

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