How to Swear

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Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business. Owing to the rich and complex history of swearing, a single word can have a host of different meanings – from expressing surprise, excitement, anger, celebration, disgust or simply that you’re fucked off.

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How to Swear by Stephen Wildish

Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business. Owing to the rich and complex history of swearing, a single word can have a host of different meanings – from expressing surprise, excitement, anger, celebration, disgust or simply that you’re fucked off. If you don’t get it right, you could really be in the shit. How to Swear, by graphic artist and swearing-connoisseur Stephen Wildish, uses all manner of charts and flow diagrams to teach you all you need to know, including: the building blocks of an effective insult; the adverbial uses of various types of animal excrement (horseshit, apeshit etc); and the different parts of speech a swear word can fulfil: ‘Fucking fuck, the fucking fucker’s fucked’. This charming (and rude) book will take you right to the heart of the wondrous world of swearing, with a lot of laughs on the way.
Stephen Wildish is a graphic designer specialising in illustration and infographics. He is the author of How to Swear, How to Adult and How to Vegan, and lives in Marlborough.
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ISBN 13 9781785036415
ISBN 10 1785036416
Title How to Swear
Author Stephen Wildish
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Binding type Hardback
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Year published 2017-10-19
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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