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 | #96032 in Books |  VH-ABG |  2010-12-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.00 x6.00l,.90 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Down to the nitty-gritty!|By happy grandma|Thank heavens for euphemisms; they soften the harsh realities of daily existence. As Keyes deconstructs each euphemism, however, the words get grittier and uglier and..... What should I have been expecting? I actually learned a lot of new phrases -- euphemisms within euphemisms within euphemisms -- that, had they been spoken on the sil| |"If 'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne,' as Quentin Crisp once said, then Ralph Keyes has given word and language lovers a deeply fragrant-and thoroughly enjoyable-book."―Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of Oxymoronica and othe

How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language. EUPHEMANIA traces the origins of euphemisms from a tool of the church to a form of gentility to today's instrument of commercial, political, and postmodern doublespeak.

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