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Deviant sex, almost by definition, is bound to gross out more people than normal sex—but disgust doesn’t justify hatred. The following is an excerpt from PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering, published October 8, 2013 by...

Today, Green's Dictionary of Slang (GDoS for short) launches its online version. This is excellent news, coming more than five years after Jonathon Green published the print edition of his exhaustive three-volume reference work. As I wrote in the New...

Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue. ‘Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been […] or is ever likely to be’​ — Journal of English Language and Linguistics Continue reading… More great content like this...

Despite having just under half a million people, the great Northern English city of Manchester has 200 languages spoken within it. These languages include Nahuatl, the ancient language of the Aztecs, Zulu, from South Africa, and Dari, from Afghanistan...

Folk music is essentially self-cataloguing. When a performer records a traditional song, that song’s place in the canon is instantaneously updated, and the performer becomes part of the tradition. There is no further need to compartmentalise or introduce...