Unmentionables
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don''t say.
Words and phrases like ''collateral damage'', ''wardrobe malfunction'', ''vertically challenged'', and old favourites like ''unmentionables'' (trousers, apparently) or ''lady of the night'' - all are ways of not using particular words. UNMENTIONABLES is a rollicking exploration of the history of euphemistic usage, looking at how taboos connected ...
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don''t say.
Words and phrases like ''collateral damage'', ''wardrobe malfunction'', ''vertically challenged'', and old favourites like ''unmentionables'' (trousers, apparently) or ''lady of the night'' - all are ways of not using particular words. UNMENTIONABLES is a rollicking exploration of the history of euphemistic usage, looking at how taboos connected ...
