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BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH (UK)
Author Q & A: Ralph Keyes In his time prolific American writer Ralph Keyes has tackled a whole range of non-fiction topics, from the lingering effects of life at high school to the importance of one’s height (or lack thereof). Keyes has a particular fascination with the vagaries of language, and his latest book dissects …
National Post (Canada)
The softest slurs: Humans have always needed to avoid saying what they’re saying As long as we have had language we have had the need not to say what we have to say. No culture and no period in history have been exempt from euphemisms, least of all our own. Don’t even try to avoid …
Times Literary Supplement
Times Literary Supplement, May 8, 2009
A MAGNIFICENT BOOK
From Amazon.com 5 Stars Patrick O’Connor, writer and book lover (Glendale CA) The Quote Verifier is entirely magnificent. Who can resist this book? I can’t stop reading it. It’s like eating peanuts: once you start you can’t stop. Patrick O’Connor is the author of Don’t Look Back
Hartford Courant
June 20, 2009 Gen X’ers with iPod buds stuck into their ears might puzzle over the meaning of terms derived from phonograph records: “flip side,” “like a broken record” and “in the groove.” Ralph Keyes is here to help with “I Love It When You Talk Retro” (St. Martin’s, $25.95), which describes the origins of …