Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms
Ralph Keyes Hardcover, 278 pages (Bibliothèque de Westmount) Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language. EUPHEMANIA traces the origins of euphemisms from a tool of the church to a form of gentility to today’s instrument of commercial, political, and postmodern doublespeak. —…