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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing Melissa Mohr
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Do I tell him it's sometimes acceptable for adults, but never for children? Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing. When I write honestly about how I felt or what I, or someone else, said in a story I'm telling, I choose to use whatever accurate profanity happened in that moment. Nov 27, 2013 - Do I want to do that? Oct 24, 2013 - From Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing . Some people (for Far from validating this viewpoint, Mohr maps the dual paths of the two main types of curse words, and explains how these words came to have their peculiar power–even going so far as to show that these words have a direct, measurable effect on our brain patterns. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr My rating: 5 of 5 stars. It's OK in private, just not in public? May 19, 2014 - Although if you are easily offended by foul language, why the fuck did you pick up a book called Holy Shit in the first place? Jul 17, 2013 - The first, Melissa Mohr's Holy Shit, is an earnest, well-researched history of the most powerful words in the English language: curse words. May 15, 2013 - Over the weekend, Salon posted a fun little look into the etymological, cultural, and socioeconomic history of swearing (an excerpt from Melissa Mohr's book Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing). Jan 22, 2014 - The reason I bring this all up is because I'm reading Melissa Mohr's book, Holy Sh*t.