Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In this book, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delight…
"Depraved English collects more than 300 actual English words you've surely never heard, and would never have imagined a need for--until now. Here is a cornucopia of peculiar appetites , unusual afflictions, unseemly secretions, ill-advised habits, and strange farm practices."--…
"This unusual, un-put-downable little volume collects more than three hundred of the English language's most disgusting, offensive, and obscene words - words that have fallen out of common usage but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who h…