Your Mother's Tongue by Stephen Burgen

Your Mother's Tongue

Stephen Burgen

223 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

funny lighthearted slow-paced
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An exploration of insults and swearwords in some 20 European tongues. It shows that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another, explaining why you should never call a Finn a Swede, a Portugese woman a nanny-goat or a Spanish one a v...

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