reviews-retro

***** 5 stars Sarah Mallory (Sacramento, CA) (REAL NAME) loved finding out about the origins of all of these common phrases. Some I had never even heard of, but some I had an idea of where they came from. Quite an interesting read. I am only 23, so while I have heard most of the …

***** 5 stars Margo Dunlavey “Margo” (Rockville, MD) This delightful book gives the reader the origins and meanings of a multitude of catch phrases that you have heard, but were perhaps not sure of. It is a quick read. I have bought a copy as a gift for my son, who loves words, but is …

***** 5 stars Fairlee E. Winfield “Author of BUFFALOed” (Scottsdale, Arizona) Not only a reference though. It’s fun too. For a writer like me, even if you lived the retro talk, you tend to forget. This is great to refresh your memory and grab the feeling of early American speech. Grandma never did learn to …

***** 5 stars G. Courter “LastWord” (Florida) When my father, age 94, hears a phrase like “juggernaut” he shows off with a convoluted–and usually incorrect–story about its origin. Now I have “I Love It When You Talk Retro” to set matters straight. And no, Dad, juggernaut is NOT a German WWI term, Ralph Keyes explains …

**** 4 stars By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, Illinois, USA)   (TOP 50 REVIEWER) Quite a few expressions we Americans use are out-of-date expressions that we nonetheless know the meaning of, more or less. But, even among those that we use, we often do not completely understand the roots of the expression. Well, in this rather …

***** 5 stars By Marty Hollingsworth “grammawalt.com” (CO United States) This is a fun book for finding out where phrases that you use all the time came from. It’ll give you great cocktail party chat. :-)