Your Mother's Tongue

An exploration of insults and swearwords in some 20 European tongues. It shows that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another, explaining why you should never call a Finn a Swede, a Portugese woman a nanny-goat or a Spanish one a vixen.

• Author
• Stephen Burgen

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 223

• Publisher
• Trafalgar Square Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780575400900

• Genres
• language

• Release date
• 1997