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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Contents |
A Brief but Suitably Scholarly and Boring Introduction -- But Enough about Me-What Do You Know about Me? -- Plain Talk about the Plains, Definitions, and What Folklore Is, Isn't, Might Be, and Is Mostly -- A Lesson in Proper Diction -- Why I'm an Only Child -- A Special Announcement -- Dad Instructs Me about Civil Ribaldry Even as I Thought I Was Instructing Him -- Naughty Is in the Ears of the Beholder -- A First Lesson in Military Nomenclature -- Diction Friction -- Evoked and Provoked -- Cipherin' -- Thinking Fast -- Cold . . . and Deep -- Inhouse Outhouses -- Speaking of Treed Raccoons -- Harvard Law -- Urban vs. Rural -- The Eternal Cuckold -- Now's Your Chance -- Using the Imagination -- Ways of the Wise -- Traffic Flow -- Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentle Sex -- Oh, Dat Ole! Oh, Dat Lena! -- Same Idea, Different Names -- No Boyz Aloud -- The Church of What? -- What Did He Say? -- How You Gonna Keep 'Em down on the Farm (after They've Seen the Farm) -- The Birds Do It, Bees Do It -- Indiscreet Secretions -- Why Is It Called a "Fly?" -- Geriatric Indignities -- Callow Youth -- Age Has Nothing to Do with It -- Innocent? Or Simply Not Guilty? -- Other Unmentionables -- An Afterword. |
Note |
Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Welsch, Roger L.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Folklore -- Nebraska.
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Nebraska -- Social life and customs.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Cavett, Dick, writer of added text.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Welsch, Roger L. Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] 9780803284289 |
ISBN |
9780803284289 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780803285927 (mobi) |
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9780803285934 (e-book) |
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