Word myths: debunking linguistic urban legends
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2004
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 221 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0195172841 |
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| adam_text | Word Myths
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Debunking Linguistic
Urban Legends
David Wilton
Illustrated by
Ivan Brunetti
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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/ kan tents/
Acknowledgments
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?
ix
i
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1 Debunking die Big Boys 23
Ring Around the Rosie 24
OK 28
The Whole Nine Yards 34
Rule of Thumb 38
They Speak Elizabethan English
in the Appalachians 44
500 Eskimo Words for Snow 50
Windy City $4
Hot Dog 58
2 The Elizabethan E-mail Hoax 61
Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater 66
Raining Cats and Dogs 67
vi Contents
Dirt Poor
Threshold
Pease Porridge
Bring Home the Bacon
Chew the Fat
Trencher 1 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
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Contents vii
Mind Your Ps and Qs 108
Under the Weather i n
Knock Off 112
Son of a Gun 112
Railroad Origins 113
Balling the Jack 113
Balls to the Wall 114
Ethnic Origins 115
Lynch 115
Jazz 116
America 123
5 Hookers, Harlots, and Condoms 129
Hooker 130
/forfo* 131
Condom 133
Ga/ 137
/« Zi/fe Flynn 139
Real McCoy 141
DixK 145
C^wf 148
Pumpernickel 150
•£//« Island Name Changing 151
6 The Perils of Political Correctness 155
Picnic 157
M fty Gritty 159
Jimmies 160
Indian I In Dios 163
Indian Giver 166
Squaw 168
Hip/Hep 170
viii Cmtents
Gay 172
Faggot 175
Handicap 177
Politically Correct 179
Tinker s Damn 182
Wax Tadpoles and Jelly Doughnuts 185
I Am a Jelly Doughnut 186
Chevy No Go 188
Bite the Wax Tadpole 190
Turn It Loose and Fly Naked 193
Kangaroo 195
Gringo 196
Conclusion 198
Notes 201
Selected Annotated Bibliography 217
Index 219
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