It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn
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F uck the Fuckity Fuckin’ Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won’t be surprised that this was her father’s favorite sentence, or that, as a young girl, she heard it as a kind of profane poem, a secret song. For many of us, the language of Geek Love carries a similar staying power, born of Dunn’s agile use of language and her strange, beautiful diction. And as a true exegete of the expletive, she remained undividedly devoted to obscenity—both as scholar and practitioner. In On Cussing, Dunn sketches a brief history of swear words and creates something of a field guide to their types and usages,...
On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.
This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing aloud.
On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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