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Word myths : debunking linguistic urban legends /
Do you ""know"" that posh comes from an acronym meaning ""port out, starboard home""? That ""the whole nine yards"" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic footb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. What is a linguistic urban legend?
- Where do they come from?
- How do they vary?
- Why do we tell them?
- How are they told?
- Who tells them?
- Are we being spoilsports?
- How do we ferret out the truth?
- Debunking the big boys . Ring around the Rosie
- Ok
- The whole nine yards
- Rule of thumb
- They speak Elizabethan English in the Appalachians
- 500 Eskimo words for snow
- Windy city
- Hot dog
- The Elizabethan e-mail hoax. Throw the baby out with the bathwater
- Raining cats and dogs
- Dirt poor
- Threshold
- Pease porridge
- Bring home the bacon
- Chew the fat
- Trencher / trench mouth
- Bed and board
- Upper crust
- Wake
- Graveyard shift
- Saved by the bell and dead ringer
- Posh, phat pommies. Ichthys
- Cabal
- AWOL
- Fuck
- News and tips
- Golf
- Spud
- Wog
- Nylon
- SOS
- Pommy
- Phat
- Posh
- Canoe. Devil to pay
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Over a barrel
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Under the weather
- Knock off
- Son of a gun
- Railroad origins : Balling the jack ; Balls to the wall
- Ethnic origins : Lynch ; Jazz ; America
- Hookers, harlots, and condoms. Hooker
- Harlot
- Condom
- Crap
- In like Flynn
- Real McCoy
- Dixie
- Upset
- Pumpernickel
- Ellis Island name changing
- The perils of political correctness. Picnic
- Nitty gritty
- Jimmies
- Indian / In Dios
- Indian giver
- Squaw
- Hip/hep
- Gay
- Faggot
- Handicap
- Politically correct
- Tinker's dream
- Wax tadpoles and jelly doughnuts. I am a jelly doughnut
- Chevy no go
- Bite the wax tadpole
- Turn it loose and fly naked
- Kangaroo
- Gringo.