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John H. McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history at Columbia University. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and host of Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast. McWhorter is the author of twenty books, including The Power of Babel- A Natural History of Language, Losing the Race- Self-Sabotage in Black America, and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue- The Untold History of English.
Rollicking, salty, learned, and intensely informative, John McWhorter's Nine Nasty Words is a grand tour through the history of the profanities we (sometimes) abhor and (sometimes) revel in (and sometimes both), peppered with cameos by everyone from Geoffrey Chaucer and Cole Porter to Tallulah Bankhead and the too-little-known singer-songwriter Lucille Bogan, still making people blush seventy-odd years after her death, God bless her. I laughed frequently and learned plenty.--Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer's English Dispensing his vast linguistic expertise with the lightest and deftest of touches, John McWhorter shows brilliantly how the 'nastiest' words can teach us about the dynamic and unruly nature of all language. Anyone interested in words (and not just the nasty ones) should read this book.--Joe Moran, author of First You Write a Sentence. If you want to get down and dirty in the gutter of English (and, be honest, who doesn't?) you'd better go with a guide who knows his shit. McWhorter gives a jovial, expert tour of the 'bedrock swears' from the offensive and profane to the merely 'salty, ' not just where they came from, but how they have shifted and morphed in force, meaning, grammar and in the effect they produce.--Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages
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