Overview
"This unusual and unputdownable little volume collects more than 300 of the English language's most disgusting, offensive and obscene words - words that have fallen out of common usage and that you've probably never heard, but will never forget once you do. Here is a cornucopia of peculiar appetites, unusual afflictions, unseemly secretions, ill-advised habits and strange farm practices. Who hasn't searched for the right word to describe a colleague's maschalephidrosis (runaway armpit perspiration), a boss' pleonexia (insane greed) or a friend's fumosities (ill-smelling vapours from a drunken person's belches)? ""Depraved English"" is the filthiest and most hilarious word book ever."
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Novobatzky ,
Ammon Shea
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
Imprint: Robert Hale Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780709091745
ISBN 10: 0709091745
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 31 January 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
Depraved English is anything but depraved. Don't believe the title. It's a book on language you can read on subway, bus, and plane--though you have to be ready for surprised looks when you laugh out loud or give little yelps of joy. Your choller will wobble as you pick at your gound and, ever after, flat English will give you an attact of rectalgia. If someone is majoring in English, give him or her this book. Give it to your Randy grandma. --Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis . <br> Delicious and disgusting by turns, Depraved English is an invaluable and cleverly worked vade mecum for those millions of us who (a) are fascinated by sex and (b) enjoy insulting people. No intelligent home should be without it. --Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman <br>
"""""Depraved English"" is anything but depraved. Don't believe the title. It's a book on language you can read on subway, bus, and plane--though you have to be ready for surprised looks when you laugh out loud or give little yelps of joy. Your choller will wobble as you pick at your gound and, ever after, flat English will give you an attact of rectalgia. If someone is majoring in English, give him or her this book. Give it to your Randy grandma.""--Frank McCourt, author of ""Angela's Ashes"" and ""'Tis"". ""Delicious and disgusting by turns, ""Depraved English"" is an invaluable and cleverly worked ""vade mecum"" for those millions of us who (a) are fascinated by sex and (b) enjoy insulting people. No intelligent home should be without it.""--Simon Winchester, author of ""The Professor and the Madman"" """"Depraved English is anything but depraved. Don't believe the title. It's a book on language you can read on subway, bus, and plane--though you have to be ready for surprised looks when you laugh out loud or give little yelps of joy. Your choller will wobble as you pick at your gound and, ever after, flat English will give you an attact of rectalgia. If someone is majoring in English, give him or her this book. Give it to your Randy grandma.""--Frank McCourt, author of ""Angela's Ashes and ""'Tis. ""Delicious and disgusting by turns, ""Depraved English is an invaluable and cleverly worked ""vade mecum for those millions of us who (a) are fascinated by sex and (b) enjoy insulting people. No intelligent home should be without it.""--Simon Winchester, author of ""The Professor and the Madman"
Author Information
Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea are New York based word hounds. This is their first book.
