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Euphemism Books
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Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 1985
A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean (Oxford Quick Reference)
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avg rating 3.67 — 70 ratings — published 1996
Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published 1991
Euphemism- (Harper studies in language and literature)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1974
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,285 ratings — published 2013
The Wordsworth Book of Euphemism (Wordsworth Collection Reference Library)
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avg rating 3.64 — 22 ratings — published 1995
Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 363 ratings — published 2010
“It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.”
― Bitterblue
― Bitterblue
“None of the various 'language rules,' carefully contrived to deceive and to camouflage, had a more decisive effect on the mentality of the killers than this first war decree of Hitler, in which the word for 'murder' was replaced by the phrase 'to grant a mercy death.' Eichmann, asked by the police examiner if the directive to avoid 'unnecessary hardships' was not a bit ironic, in view of the fact that the destination of these people was certain death anyhow, did not even understand the question, so firmly was it still anchored in his mind that the unforgivable sin was not to kill people but to cause unnecessary pain.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
