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I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop A Dime, And The Forgotten Origins Of American Speech (2009)

by Ralph Keyes(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312340052 (ISBN13: 9780312340056)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: I enjoy just about any book that deals with language, and this one was good. It can be read straight through, or as a reference. It tracks the origins of just about every idiom you can think of, and explains the background of how the connection is made between how it was originally used and the way it is used now. The only thing I didn't like about this book was that I am suspicious (ok, cynical) of some of the purported origins, they sounded 'googled' to me, but that's just me.
review 2: An interesting description of English (American) terms and phrases and where they came from. I sat down to read this book from cover to cover, but it was sort of like reading a dictionary. I think it would be more interesting to browse through. I did learn a few things and h... moread fun remembering some of my favorite childhood TV shows, cartoons and advertising jingles - the sources of many phrases still common today. less

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