Contents

Front Cover Image

Welcome

Dedication

1. Mincing Words

2. From Bears to Bowdlerism

3. Speaking of Sex

4. Anatomy Class

5. Secretions and Excretions

6. Under the Weather and In the Ground

7. Comestibles

8. Show Me the Liquidity

9. Words of War

10. Brave New Words

11. Why We Euphemize

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Author

Also by Ralph Keyes