Depraved And Insulting EnglishOriginally published as two distinct collections, Depraved and Insulting English brings to light the language's most offensive and obscene wordswords that have fallen out of today's lexicon but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who hasn't searched for the right word to describe a colleague's maschalephidrosis (runaway armpit perspiration) or a boss's pleonexia (insane greed)? And what better way is there to

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