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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780312207731 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of more than three hundred disgusting, offensive, and obscene words in the English language that have fallen out of common use

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9780709091745 | Robert Hale Ltd, September 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted. Ammon Shea is not your typical thirtysomething book enthusiast. After reading the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover (and living to write about it in Reading the OED), what classic, familiar, but little-read book would he turn to next? Yes, the phone book...read more
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9780399535932 | Reprint edition (Perigee, October 5, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted.

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Product Description: An obsessive word lover's account of reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, hailed as "the Super Size Me of lexicography.""I'm reading the OED so you don't have to," says Ammon Shea on his slightly masochistic journey to scale the word lover's Mount Everest: the Oxford English Dictionary...read more
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Hardcover:

9780399533983 | Perigee, July 2, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An obsessive word lover’s account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover.

Paperback:

9780399535055 | Reprint edition (Perigee, May 5, 2009), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An obsessive word lover's account of reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, hailed as "the Super Size Me of lexicography.

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A humorous compendium of unsavory, offensive, and off-color words offers pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, and commentary on English vocabulary meant to insult and ridicule those on the outskirts of mainstream society or who exhibit unpleasant characteristics. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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9780156011495 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, August 14, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A humorous compendium of unsavory, offensive, and off-color words offers pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, and commentary on English vocabulary meant to insult and ridicule those on the outskirts of mainstream society or who exhibit unpleasant characteristics.

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A compendium of hilarious, unsavory, and off-color words you never knew you needed is coupled with sample sentences and correct pronunciations, such as 'gundygut,' or rude eater, 'lickspigot,' or a revolting parasite, 'conky,' or a person with a big nose, and many more. 10,000 first printing.
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9780312272081 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, and commentary on English vocabulary meant to insult and ridicule those on the outskirts of mainstream society or who exhibit unpleasant characteristics.

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