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Let's Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind America's Favorite Expressions

by Rosemarie Ostler
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781591026259
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books
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  • Pages: 252
  • Original Price: USD 18.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 350 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

Ever wonder what going on the wagon has to do with drinking? Why does extreme behaviour take the cake? And did Americans' pocket change ever really include wooden nickels? Many of our most intriguing expressions grew slut of once-familiar bits of American

Rosemarie Ostler, PhD (Eugene, OR), is the author of Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers, an alternate for the Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Books, which Publishers Weekly called "a pleasure" and Choice praised as "well documented and entertaining." Her many articles on language have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Christian Science Monitor, Verbatim, Whole Earth, and Writer's Digest, among other publications. She holds a doctorate in linguistics, has taught at the University of Iowa, and worked for the New York Public Library.

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