"Hello again Word Lovers!" and today lots of insults! Please be warned, obviously, this episode and article features some slurs and insults and are presented here for scholarly purposes only.
We review some pejorative terms for people of certain nationalities: Germans, the different British nationalities, the Spanish, Americans, Italians and of course, the French. (We cover the term Spaniards which is often mistaken as a pejorative term but has no pejorative connotation.
General Insults:
We investigate the use of "swerve" as an insult and how it transforms to "dodger" in modern use.
Pejoratives for professionals
Pejoratives for forms of transport
Pejoratives for bad people
We take a look at the etymology of some recent language such as Quisling and Shill
Further reading
We recommend the Viz swearing dictionary "Roger's Profanisaurus" and the "Urban Dictionary". Links can be found on our website.
