Euphemania our love affair with euphemisms
Identifies the sources of common euphemisms while tracing their historical applications as religious anti-blasphemy tools, demonstrations of gentility, and modern forms of commercial and political doublespeak.
| Main Author: | Keyes, Ralph. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Little, Brown and Co.,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Mincing words
- From bears to bowdlerism
- Speaking of sex
- Anatomy class
- Secretions and excretions
- Under the weather and In the ground
- Comestibles
- Show me the liquidity
- Words of war
- Brave new words
- Why we euphemize.