Monday, March 18, 2019

I Love When You Talk Retro:

I Love When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech By: Ralph Keyes
Non-fiction: history, pop culture, 271 pages
Physical Book Count: 12
Book Count: 18

As the book's subtitle notes this book is on the origins of phrases that are used in American speech.  It is divided up roughly by what origin they have and includes information that people not familiar with the history could need to explain the word.  For example, how the train system in earlier times dealt with small towns along the tracks to explain why a whistle-stop political campaign is where they have events in many towns in quick succession. 

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