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Jesse Sheidlower Gives the F-Word its Duenew

Until 1970, with the release of M.A.S.H., audiences had never heard the f-word in a mainstream Hollywood film. Who catalogs this stuff, and why? Jesse Sheidlower, an editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the author of The F-Word, can't stop talking about fuck.
Boston Phoenix  |  Justine Elias  |  09-16-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Steven Pinker Drops the F-Bomb on Americanew

Harvard linguist Steven Pinker gives the most intellectually rigorous examination of a curse word since On Bullshit.
Boulder Weekly  |  Dylan Otto Krider  |  09-11-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Lawrence A. Weinstein Explores the Essence of Grammarnew

Grammar for the Soul points out that simple words can have awesome power.
Tucson Weekly  |  Irene Messina  |  05-07-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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