books about: euphemisms     books:     Euphemisms      The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf Villard, 1995 Significant insight humor. A scholarly work as well. This work is a serious analysis of the feminist movement and includes references to over 180 scholarly works. This is the best book I have read on critical insight humor. Unless one is familiar with this book (see also Patai & Koertge's Professing Feminism and C. ...             Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms Hysteria Publications, 2007 A Glorious Cavalcade of Euphemisms This book is a glorious demonstration of all the terrible things that we can say about one other, spoken in the glancing hilarity of euphemism, and presented in a delightful concoction of erudition and etymology. Civilized people across the ages have gone to such ...             How Not To Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms R. W. Holder Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Straightforwardness over euphemism every time R.W. Hodder�fs dictionary is very helpful for those of us who want to say and write to be helpful without ambiguity, and who rail against the subversion of political correctness. How Not To Say What You Mean is the updated guide to probity, candor, earthiness, and ...             Slang and Euphemism, 3rd revised ed. Richard A. Spears Signet, 2001 jam packed with lots of information this book reads like a dictinary full of 1000's of terms             The Big Book of Bodily Functions: 4500 Words for Bodily Functions and Body Parts Jonathon Green Cassell, 2002 Companion to the bestselling Big Book of Filth ! An unabashed scat-fest supplies colorful and inventive metaphors, idioms, and euphemisms, along with their etymology, for every imaginable corporal emission, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. Drawing on prison jargon, street lingo, college colloquialisms, and classical literature, a leading slang ...             The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive and Downright Dangerous Language Peter Bowler David R Godine, 2007 Not meant solely to amuse the reader Unlike the previous three books in this David R. Godine series, The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language is not meant solely to amuse the reader. In today's modern era when words are carefully chosen to soften the ...             The Evasion-English Dictionary Maggie Balistreri Melville House, 2003 Buy this book...please! Contrary to what the author thinks, I blame the viral use of the word 'like' - the precursor to the computer virus - on ... Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. Who didn't let that little munchy craving, paranoid pothead infect us all? The word is everywhere, ubiquitous, nonsense ...             The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms Jordan Tate St. Martin's Press, 2007 The pleasures of reading the OED and snickering at dirty Mad Libs rolled into one Depending on your familiarity with contemporary sexual slang, this book will either be one big gut laugh, or a highly educational experience. For most readers, it will be both. Tate combines suprisingly elegant entymologies with suprisingly tasteful photos to make a ...             Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk Hugh Rawson Castle Books, 2003             The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook: Updated! New Entries! Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf Villard, 1993 Funny, yet Frightening When I first bought the book, I was expecting high quality entertainment, providing razor-sharp satire on a society rapidly increasing its speed into the chasm of death. I got that, but I got so much more. The book does an excellent job of providing a realistic look at ...             Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon Keith Allan, Kate Burridge Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 We all use euphemisms. We ask for directions to the "ladies room" or convey the news that someone has recently "passed away." In fact, euphemisms have existed throughout recorded history: they are used by preliterate peoples, and have probably been around since human language first developed. And the same is true of offensive language, or ...             A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean (Oxford Paperback Reference) R. W. Holder Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Say What You Mean--Or Use A Euphemism Author, R. W. Holder holds fast to two tests of a euphemism: 1) It must be a substitute for blunt precision or disagreeable truth 2) That a euphemism once meant, or still does mean, something else entirely different. In short, a way to be politically correct. A ...             Ntc's Dictionary of Euphemisms Anne Bertram NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1999 Love Child or Bastard ??? About three years ago and before I knew amazon.com, I bought this book form a bookstore in Saudi Arabia. To begin with, I was so hesitant to purchase it because I did not know the meaning of " Euphemisms". A brainstorming was going in my mind " what the hell are ...             The Politically Correct Phrasebook: What They Say You Can and Cannot Say in the 1990s Nigel Rees Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 1994             Kind Words: A Thesaurus of Euphemisms Judith S. Neaman, Carole G. Silver Avon Books (P), 1991 Containing over 4000 euphemisms, this reference guide explains how and why we coin euphemisms to hide fears, abide by taboos, mask secret desires, excuse misbehaviour and mention the unmentionable. 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