Introduction. This is the website of Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicographer. I am currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Writing program at Columbia University. I am the author of The F-Word, a detailed history of the word fuck, and the Past President of the American Dialect Society. I am also the editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. by Jesse Sheidlower (Editor) out of 5 stars. 4 ratings. ISBN ISBN Why is ISBN important? ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The digit and digit formats both work/5(4). In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn himself" on the Senate floor--it doesn't have quite the /5(56).
In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn. This is the website of Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicographer. I am currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Writing program at Columbia University. I am the author of The F-Word, a detailed history of the word fuck, and the Past President of the American Dialect Society. I am also the editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. Jesse Sheidlower is the world's expert on the F word — and that's an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his page book, The F-Word, newly updated and revised, was years in the making."There aren't that many words that you can write an entire book about, and of those, very, very few of them are ones.
by Jesse Sheidlower (Editor) out of 5 stars. 4 ratings. ISBN ISBN Why is ISBN important? ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The digit and digit formats both work. In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn himself" on the Senate floor--it doesn't have quite the same impact as what was really said. The F-Word earned its title the hard way: editor Jesse Sheidlower and the staff of Random House combed vast numbers of books, magazines, films, and other works for references to the most beloved, least printable word in the English language and all its variations. There's some great reading here among the hundreds of citations, from the colorful dialogue of Gore Vidal to the military's creative use of intensifiers to boost morale.
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