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I don’t normally post about commercial websites, whether they’re promoting books or other products, but Pascal Bonenfant’s site for his book Cant: A Gentleman’s Guide slipped past my defenses with a sneaky added feature: I have used three sources: Collection...

I am delighted to announce that Contributing Writer Jonathon Green‘s magnum opus GREEN’S DICTIONARY OF SLANG, 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue is now online and thus his ever-growing, endlessly-fascinating database of filth is accessible to all Jonathan...

What is the origin of "in a jiffy"? Etymology online Dictionary says origin unknown but speculates that it was slang (cant) for lightning and dates it as 1785. Wikipedia agrees but adds that the American physical chemist, Gilbert Newton Lewis (187...

This article contains explicit language. The word “cunt” continues to be increasingly prevalent in our consumption of popular culture. So what is it about this word and its ability to grab our attention? Does it still have the same shock value? The...

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