Title: Opus maledictorum
First published: 1996
Description: Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world swears by"--this compendium of colorful language in all its forms takes a linguistic look at "dirty words". Offering a clever mixture of both scholarly and popular, witty and serious words, this good-natured look at offensive language includes dirty jokes, regional swear words, and myriad terms of abuse.
Subjects: Swearing, Blessing and cursing, Racism in language, Words, Obscene, Invective, Obscene words
LC classification: P409 .A46 1996