How Not To Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms (3rd Edition)

This fascinating and diverting dictionary has a fairly complex publishing history. It was first published in 1987 by Bath University Press as A Dictionary of British and American Euphemisms, with a revised edition published by Faber and Faber in 1989. A second edition was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as A Dictionary of Euphemisms, with a paperback version in 1996. Now we have a third edition, and a third title, from what remains the third publisher. One constant remains: in its codification and explanation of what is often the darker underbelly of the language it provides...