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Sunday Miscellany: The Vulgar Tongue, by Catherine Ann Cullen

"I suppose you could say it was something blue that I tripped over in the bookshop in Westport on the May bank holiday weekend. It was the '1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', subtitled 'Bookish Wit,University Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence'.

One quick thumbing and I knew that I loved it madly, and needed it badly..."

the intriguing bookshop find

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