Essex Books Presents Shelf Awareness: The Growth of the Groove by BWW News Desk
- June 13, 2017 Musician and journalist Max Décharné's Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang, out now from Pegasus Books, is a rip-roaring ride through the history of slang. From Elizabethan London to the present day, this entertaining take will not disappoint. Here's Décharné's write-up on the word 'groovy'--which, interestingly enough, has very little to do with Austin Powers and his ilk.