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I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Ralph Keyes

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Today's eighteen-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, the size of a breadbox, or why going postal refers to a major uproar. Such "retroterms" are words or phrases whose origin lies in our past. I Love It When You Talk Retro discusses these verbal fossils that linger in our national conversation long after the topic they refer to has galloped into the sunset. That could be a person (Charles Ponzi), product (Edsel), radio show (Gang Busters), or ad slogan ("Cha-ching!"). How many realize that cooties was World War I slang for lice, or that doofus came from the comic strip Popeye?

Ralph Keyes takes us on an illuminating and engaging tour through what he calls retrotalk. This journey along the highways of history and byways of culture is an invaluable handbook for anyone who's ever wondered about an obscure word or phrase, "I wonder where that came from?" Ralph Keyes's book answers that question. Repeatedly. And is a lot of fun to read.

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  • Title I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech
  • Author Ralph Keyes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2010-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312606404 / 0312606400
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects English language, English language - Idioms
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008030157
  • Dewey Decimal Code 422

About the author

Ralph Keyes is the author of The Quote Verifier, The Writer's Book of Hope, and The Courage to Write. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he lectures and is a trustee of the Antioch Writers' Workshop.

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