Even the most profane practitioner of the vulgar tongue must sometimes wonder: Am I doing it right? This highly entertaining, crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs quick-read charts, diagrams, explications, and strategies to take readers’ salty skills to the next level.

Offering guidance, history and etymology, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more, How to Swear celebrates the rude ingenuity of using a single naughty word to express surprise, excitement, anger, joy, or disgust, limited only by the imagination. It’s inspiring. It’s educational. It’s dirty. It’s here to change lives, or at the very least, add some f*#&ing color to the conversation.