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Super Punch The new book I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech by Ralph Keyes about slang sounds (and looks) great. You can read an interview with Keyes here. One fun nugget from the interview: I was surprised to find out …

Ralph Keyes is releasing a new book, called I Love it When You Talk Retro. Detailing the history of cultural slang and the evolution of popular phrases. As a word nerd, I’d probably end up buying this just for fun if I saw it at a bookstore.

Posted by ESC Got a new book: I Love It When You Talk Retro by Ralph Keyes (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2009). Interesting terms on Page 3: Retrotalk — allusions to past phenomena. Retroterms – verbal artifacts/verbal fossils that “hang around in our national conversation long after the topic they refer to has galloped …

A [screen]writer’s website and blog by J.K. Radomski Retro Speak: The Houston Chronicle ran a short interview with Ralph Keyes last week. He’s the author of the book I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech, which looks at the origins of …

Eating Crow, Passing the Buck and Talking Turkey I painted this study of negative space after reading a review of Ralph Keyes lastest book, I Love It When You Talk Retro, Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech. Mr. Keyes’ previous book was the inspiration for a previous …

And, by the way, if you love the American-esque expressions of this post, you might want to check-out a new book called I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech by Ralph Keyes. I ordered the book at my library and can’t …