Bibliography

Introduction
What is this all about?

What is a taboo word?  And what can we use instead?

Many Taboo Words
Is there more than one kind? Where did they come from?

New Words
The beginning of new taboo words. 

Using Taboo Terms
How, when and why taboos are used in everyday language.

To Sum It Up
What was this site on?

Terms & Explanations

Brockhaus Multimedia 2002. Mannheim: Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, 2002. 

Herbst, Stoll, Westermayr. Terminologie der Sprachbeschreibung. Ismaning: Huebner, 1991.

Holder, R.W. A Dictionary of American and British Euphemisms. Bath: Bath University Press, 1987.

Krapp, G. P. The English Language in America, Vol. I. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1966.   

Leech, G.N. Semantics, 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

Marckwardt, A. H. American English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed. Springfield: Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1994.

Saper. (1996), ‘Joking in the Context of Political Correctness’, in: Australian Journal of Comedy, 2, 1996. 15. February, 2002 <http://www.ozcomedy.com/journal/21saper.htm>.

Simpson, J.A. and E.S.C. Weiner (eds.)  The Oxford English Dictionary.2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.