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008 950718s1995 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 95035505
020 $a0679445730 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm32921891
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035 $a1737727
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dIXA$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPE1599.F83$bF2 1995
082 00 $a422$220
245 04 $aThe F-word /$cedited by Jesse Sheidlower ; preface by Roy Blount, Jr.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c1995.
263 $a9510
300 $axxxv, 232 pages ;$c18 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aRather than tired cliches or graceless jokes, the F-Word contains page after page of actual, uncensored examples of the word in all its varied and robust use, from its first appearance in English in the fifteenth century.
520 8 $aEvery sense of every word containing F--k is examined in detail, with explanations and thousands of examples from many sources, including Robert Burns, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, E. E. Cummings, Jack Kerouac, soldiers' diaries, Playboy, and the Internet. The Introduction provides a revealing historical perspective on the use of this most notorious slang word.
520 8 $aWhether you use the F-word to express outrage, exhaustion, confusion, victimization, cheating, temporary insanity, or simply fulsome lust, this book tells you everything you (n)ever wanted to know about this inventive underside of real English.
650 0 $aFuck (The English word)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006083
650 0 $aEnglish language$xSemantics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043690
650 0 $aEnglish language$xEtymology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043529
650 0 $aEnglish language$xObscene words.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043619
700 1 $aSheidlower, Jesse.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95071040
852 00 $boff,glx$hPE1599.F83$iF2 1995