Horrible Words

Great and Horrible News Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Blessin Adams

Have you eaten grandma?

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Bad Language

University of Oslo/University of St Andrews) Cappelen Herman (Professor of Philosophy

World Englishes

Gunnel Melchers

Linguistics

Geoffrey K. Pullum

The Little Book of Shit

Summersdale

Horrible Histories Special: Wicked Words

Terry Deary

How to Swear

Stephen (Author) Wildish

World's Worst Inventions

Jack Watkins

Scorn

The World's Worst Children

David Walliams

Lingo

Gaston Dorren

The Horologicon A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Mark Forsyth

It's a Wonderful Word

Albert Jack

Terribly English

The Oxford history of English

Lynda Mugglestone

The English Language A Historical Introduction

Charles Barber

How to Swear Around the World

Jason Sacher

A little book of language

David Crystal

Words

Graham Pointon

A Glossary of literary terms

M.H.Abrams

I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups

Sharon Eliza Nichols

History's Worst Inventions and the People Who Made Them

Eric Chaline

The History of Britain Revealed The Shocking Truth about the English Language

M. J. Harper

Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

Nicholas Ostler

Texts in time

Annabelle Despard

Gobbledygook

Don Watson

Talk to the hand

The Dag's Dictionary A Very Funny Book of Words that Should Exist, But Don't

Richard Glover

The Smashing Saxons And, The Stormin' Normans

Terry Deary

The Barmy British Empire

Terry Deary

Odious Oceans (Horrible Geography)

Anita Ganeri

The Gorgeous Georgians (Horrible Histories)

Terry Deary

Vocabulary

Laurie Bauer

The Doubter's Companion A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

John Ralston Saul

The Terrible Tudors

Terry Deary