Books by Melissa Mohr
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review 1: An eye-opening trip through two millennia of swear words and their uses. During the Middle Ages, swearing an oath invoking God was absolutely the worst thing a person could say (the Holy) while referring to bodily functions was no big deal since there was hardly any privacy in t...
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review 1: An incredibly well researched, enjoyable book that will forever change how you think about words. The main thesis as expressed in the title, is that most bad words derive either from sacrilegious roots, or bodily functions. We learn that crude words in Latin have become high brow...
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review 1: Interesting, comical and in some sections I questioned if humans really did behaved like that 500 - 700 years ago. Wow. From George Carlin who introduced the 7 words you can't say on TV (now there are only 3), a movement seemed to have started. One thing Melissa Mohr pointed out...