A Very Sweary Dictionary

Author : Kia Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838226404
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Very Sweary Dictionary written by Kia Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever find yourself thinking that swear words can be a mind-f**k? Or is that a mindf**ck? Do you wish someone would tell you exactly where you can stick your hyphens? This book is here to do just that. Whether you're a writer, an editor, or someone who just really, really likes swearing, this indispensable sweary style guide will help you curse with consistency. Let foul-mouthed fiction editor Kia Thomas take you through the principles of editing profanities and show you how to swear with style.

Author : Amy J. Schneider
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226823024
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction written by Amy J. Schneider and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-world veteran offers the first copyediting guide focused exclusively on fiction. Although The Chicago Manual of Style is widely used by writers and editors of all stripes, it is primarily concerned with nonfiction, a fact long lamented by the fiction community. In this long-awaited book from the publisher of the Manual, Amy J. Schneider, a veteran copyeditor who’s worked on bestsellers across a wide swath of genres, delivers a companionable editing guide geared specifically toward fiction copyeditors—the first book of its type. In a series of approachable thematic chapters, Schneider offers cogent advice on how to deal with dialogue, voice, grammar, conscious language, and other significant issues in fiction. She focuses on the copyediting tasks specific to fiction—such as tracking the details of fictional characters, places, and events to ensure continuity across the work—and provides a slew of sharp, practicable solutions drawn from her twenty-five years of experience working for publishers both large and small. The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction is sure to prove an indispensable companion to The Chicago Manual of Style and a versatile tool for copyeditors working in the multifaceted landscape of contemporary fiction.

Author : Viz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781907232909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger's Profanisaurus written by Viz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the playground to the boardroom, this lexicon of bad language makes, arguably, a more important contribution to the everyday vocabulary of the British Isles than the Oxford dictionary. Now, with over 10,000 entries, this edition features the latest in expletives, sexual obscenities and lavatorial euphemisms.

Author : Viz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781062449
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hail Sweary written by Viz and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Bollocks. And Roger Mellie looked upon the Word and saw that it was good. And he said, let there be more Words. And lo, readers of Viz did send in a multitude of words, four thousand of them, arranged in more-or-less alphabetical order. And Roger spake, saying, there, that's probably enough for a brand fucking new Roger's Profanisaurus.

Author : Angus Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199571120
Total Pages : 2093 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of English written by Angus Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 2093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.

Author : Melissa Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199742677
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Sh*t written by Melissa Mohr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia

Author : Emma Byrne
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324000295
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language written by Emma Byrne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent and impeccably researched defense of our dirtiest words. We’re often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that it’s a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have traditionally omitted it and parents forbid it. But the latest research by neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, and others has revealed that swear words, curses, and oaths—when used judiciously—can have surprising benefits. In this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. With humor and colorful language, she explores every angle of swearing—why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, to lower anxiety, to prevent physical violence, to help trauma victims recover language, and to promote human cooperation. Taking readers on a whirlwind tour through scientific experiments, historical case studies, and cutting-edge research on language in both humans and other primates, Byrne defends cursing and demonstrates how much it can reveal about different cultures, their taboos and their values. Packed with the results of unlikely and often hilarious scientific studies—from the “ice-bucket test” for coping with pain, to the connection between Tourette’s and swearing, to a chimpanzee that curses at her handler in sign language—Swearing Is Good for You presents a lighthearted but convincing case for the foulmouthed.

Author : Antonio Vieyra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts, written by Antonio Vieyra and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Mellie
Publisher : Macmillan Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752215075
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger's Profanisaurus written by Roger Mellie and published by Macmillan Pub Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No lavatory is complete without a Profanisaurus! After all, what else could you read whilst you're sitting on the 'chod bin' trying not to 'breach the hull' or commit a 'Wee-Harvey Oswald'? Don't know the difference between 'stabbing the cat' and 'feeding the ducks'? Don't know when to take a 'monkey's fag break? You need Roger's Profanisaurus - the ultimate in schoolboy humour (that is definitely not for children). Roger Mellie presents this updated dictionary of swearing that gives a hilarious new angle to many previously innocently-used words. New vastly expanded edition. Completely revised and updated. An entertaining glossary of vulgarity, expletives, colourful obscenity and downright filth; Ideal for use in the home and office

Author : John BULLOKAR
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An English expositour, or Compleat dictionary: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words, and most usefull terms of art used in our language. First set forth by J. B. Dr of Physick ... And now the sixth time revised, corrected, and very much augmented ... By a lover of the arts. The author named in the preface as John Bulloker written by John BULLOKAR and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: