Fair Of Speech The Uses Of Euphemism by D.J. Enright
Fair Of Speech The Uses Of Euphemism

D.J. Enright

Fair Of Speech The Uses Of Euphemism

D.J. Enright

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Can a bomb ever be "clean"? Are we relieved to be warned that there will be an "odor" when once we were told that something would "stink"? Or, to put it another way, when is a euphemism a mark of good taste and when is it a sign of verbal obfuscat...

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