Lonely Planet

David Else

Stephen Burgen

Dominic Watt

Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker

Richard Crowe

Dr Roibeard O Maolalaigh

Lonely Planet British Language & Culture

An extremely funny history of so-called bad language by a European author. He asserts that Europeans try to get along but keep treading on each other's toes. In this tour of anger, exasperation, prejudice, irony and loathing as expressed in some 20 European tongues, we learn that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another. A single currency in Europe? Yes. A common language? Not on your life. The Guardian review states that the book's "His gently comic tone recognizes how funny, how much of a release, much bad language can be." "Entertaining, widely informed."

A Book Of European Invective

Your Mother's Tongue

Stephen Burgen

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