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We are not free to speak. Taboos regulate what we can talk about and what words we can use. In our discussions of scores of aspects of human life, from urination to defecation, through sacking an employee to killing people, we use soft or respectable vocabulary to disguise a reality that we would rather not face up to.
In this revised edition, John Ayto looks at these forbidden areas and traces the interrelated network of euphemisms we use to cope with them. The result is both entertaining and enlightening.
In this revised edition, John Ayto looks at these forbidden areas and traces the interrelated network of euphemisms we use to cope with them. The result is both entertaining and enlightening.
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John Ayto is an experienced lexicographer and author of many language titles including Word Origins. He is Chief Etymologist on the Bloomsbury English Dictionary.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 074755045X
- ISBN 13 9780747550457
- BindingPaperback
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DICTIONARY OF EUPHEMISMS
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