Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk

Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015037485086
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Download or read book Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk written by Hugh Rawson and published by Crown. This book was released on 1995 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perennially popular, witty and entertaining guidebook to thousands of linguistic fig leaves and intentionally vague terms that we all say, write and read every day to cushion the real meaning of what is intended--from Victorian examples like "delicate condition" to relatively recent inventions like "massage parlor" and "covert operation".


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