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See Also
ABUSE, ANGLO-SAXON, AUSTRALIAN, AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE, BAD LANGUAGE, BLASPHEMY, DEROGATORY, EUPHEMISM, EXPLETIVE, FOUL LANGUAGE, FOUR-LETTER WORD, INFIX, OBSCENITY, PARTRIDGE, PLAIN ENGLISH, SLANG, SWEARWORD, TABOO, VULGAR, VULGARISM.
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Further Reading
Flexner, Stuart Berg. 1976. I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated Treasury of American Words and Phrases. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Jay, Timothy B. 1992. Cursing in America: A Psycholinguistic Study of Dirty Language in the Courts, in the Movies, in the Schoolyards, and on the Streets. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jay, Timothy B. 2000. Why We Curse: A Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jay, Timothy B. 2005. American Women: Their Cursing Habits and Religiosity. In Gender and the Language of Religion, ed. Allyson Jule, 63-84. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Timothy B. Jay
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