Feeding the fascination with grammar, wordplay and euphemisms.
Into today's fascination with all things linguistic, grammatical and euphemistic, comes this compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Replace your tired four-letter curses. Bless Her Heart is filled with fun facts about common (and not-so-common) words, humorous, insulting quotes and antique bawdy drawings that will both shock you and make you laugh your bleep off.
Includes- The lost art of the insult-real zingers that prove your intelligence. At a loss for words? You can always quote Shakespeare. Addressing individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails. The F-word and other intensives. Four letter words of six letters or more. What to do when those around you are behaving badly.
Addressing the mentally incompetent, the absurdly bureaucratic, the impossibly rational and other individual instances of ineptitude, obfuscation or obstruction.and much more!
By:
Linda Berdoll
Imprint: Sourcebooks, Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 178mm,
Width: 133mm,
Spine: 51mm
Weight: 147g
ISBN: 9781402208850
ISBN 10: 1402208855
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 01 May 2007
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Chapter 1. Censuring the Fool: The Lost Art of the Insult Of Hos and Hounds International Culinary Observations At a Loss for Words, Hockey Puck? Quote Shakespeare! Sacre Bleu: Minced Oaths, Profanities and Expletives The Body and Its Imperfections Silent Disparagement: The Bird and His Friends Circumlocution Worshipping at the Shrine of Bacchus Chapter 2. Indisposition Gastro-Intestinal Disorder Pussyfooting around the Curse Crawling Creatures Social Diseases Foul Emanations In the Privy Wring Out One's Socks Afflicted by Time's Winged Chariot The Bucket Kick'd Chapter 3. Bewitched, Bothered and Betwattled Overborne by Desire Temporary Priaprism Humbled in the Act of Love The Long Carbine Dallying, Firkytoodling, and Finkdiddling Bowing at the Altar of Eros Safe Sex or Sex ""Sain et Sauf"" Men Behaving Badly"
Researching her bestselling novels Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife and Darcy & Elizabeth, author Linda Berdoll was surprised and delighted by the euphemisms she turned up-most of them of an insulting nature. Berdoll compiled them here to entertain and enlighten. She lives on a pecan farm in Del Valle, Texas, with her husband.
