The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing
by
Peter Silverton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language...