Author:
Title:
Euphemania : our love affair with euphemisms.--
Classification:
423.1 K444
Publisher:
New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Little, Brown, c2010.
Description:
279 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780316056564
Subjects:
Notes:
Bibliografía : p. 251- 267
Contents:
1. Mincing words -- 2. From bears to bowdlerism -- 3. Speaking of sex -- 4. Anatomy class -- 5. Secretions and excretions -- 6. Under the weather and In the ground -- 7.
Comestibles -- 8. Show me the liquidity -- 9. Words of war -- 10. Brave new words -- 11. Why we euphemize.
