When we come to occupative names, we are again confronted by crowds of diminutives.

He'd seen an item about the resort on TV, though he couldn't remember whether it had been Tomorrow's World, Holiday or Eurotrash. What he could remember was swearing he wouldn't be seen dead in the place

There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house.

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by dirty words. It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.