Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:33:59 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: Book on cursing?



Some other fairly new works, depending on your definition of "just come out",

are:



Allen, Keith & Kate Burridge (1991) Euphemism and Dysphemism

Aman, Reinhold (1994) Talking Dirty

Hughes, Geoffrey (1991) Swearing: A Social History...

Jay, Timothy (1992) Cursing in America



In addition, Aman (the man from Maledicta) has just come out (on any definition

since the publication date is 1996) with a new book, Opus Maledictorum: A Book

of Bad Words. I haven't seen that one yet, but the ones above may be useful

for your purposes.



--Larry Horn

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

A colleague abroad hears that a study on curse words has just

came out in the U.S. and asks for details. Does this ring a

bell with any readers? Let me know at ewb2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cornell.edu



The only book treating "curse words" as a broad subject that

has just come out is _Blue Streak,_ by Richard Dooling (Random

House). It's not a scholarly work, and it's not terribly good.



Jesse Sheidlower

Random House Reference

jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com