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Author Keyes, Ralph.

Title Euphemania : our love affair with euphemisms / Ralph Keyes.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown and Co., c2010.
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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  427.09 Key    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 279 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 251- 267) and index.
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.
Source NBK 3/11 PPL
Subject English language -- Euphemism.
ISBN 9780316056564
0316056561

 
    
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