If you need a guide to 'unconventional English' - as slang and swearing is often called - you might try Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, compiled by specialist dictionary maker, Jonathan Green. This guide contains over 60,000 entries covering slang from the sixteenth century to the 1990s. It includes the latest expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world, including Britain, North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This dictionary gives definitions for thousands of terms, ranging from the jargon used by criminals in Victorian London to the drugs culture of the modern world, via swear words, rhyming slang and the often colourful language of sex.

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