Euphemania
Subtitle: our love affair with euphemisms
By: Ralph Keyes
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780316056564
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mincing words; title: From bears to bowdlerism; title: speaking of sex; title: Anatomy class; title: Secretions and Excretions; title: Under the weather and in the ground; title: Comestibles; title: Show me the liquidity; title: Words of war; title: Brave new words; title: Why we euphemize.