# How to Swear

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- Book: [How to Swear](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-wildish/how-to-swear) ([How to Swear.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-wildish/how-to-swear.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Wildish](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-wildish)
- Publisher: Ebury Press
- ISBN: 978-17-8503-641-5
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2017-10-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business. Owing to the rich and complex history of swearing, a single word can have a host of different meanings – from expressing surprise, excitement, anger, celebration, disgust or simply that you’re fucked off. If you don’t get it right, you could really be in the shit. How to Swear , by graphic artist and swearing-connoisseur Stephen Wildish, uses all manner of charts and flow diagrams to teach you all you need to know, including: the building blocks of an effective insult; the adverbial uses of various types of animal excrement (horseshit, apeshit etc); and the different parts of speech a swear word can fulfil: ‘Fucking fuck, the fucking fucker’s fucked’. This charming (and rude) book will take you right to the heart of the wondrous world of swearing, with a lot of laughs on the way.