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Evan Morris divides his time between a rambling old farmhouse in rural Ohio and an apartment in New York City. Evan Morris is the author of The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet.. as well as in Mexico and Japan. His syndicated column, "The Word Detective," is read all over the U.S. The award-winning Word Detective web site receives ov

• Title : Making Whoopee: Words of Love for Lovers of Words
• Author : Evan Morris
• Rating : 4.91 (146 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-8-16
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 208 Pages
• Asin : 1565123506
• Language : English

Evan Morris divides his time between a rambling old farmhouse in rural Ohio and an apartment in New York City. Evan Morris is the author of The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet.. as well as in Mexico and Japan. His syndicated column, "The Word Detective," is read all over the U.S. The award-winning Word Detective web site receives over five thousand hits a week

He also touches upon recently discarded rituals of courtship in his analysis of the words "spoon" and "neck," and comments on casual dating practices with his pithy summation of the phrase "hook up," arguing that it mirrors modern courtship by "collapsing the entire mating process into one tepid phrase." Present this informative title to any literary-minded lover, and they are sure to experience linguistic "ecstasy." Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Although this slim volume is merely a list of words pertaining to love and their origins and meanings, Morris's (The Word Detective) beguiling prose may tempt readers to consume this lively concoction straight through from "Adonis" to "yen." Morris meticulously tracks each word's journey through time, which will leave readers with the sense that they are speaking history when they say "bride" or "darling," one of the oldest endearments in the English language.

Readers will discover that when liaison first appeared in English it was as a cooking term (for egg yolks used to bind ingredients together); originally to flirt meant to snub (hardly the sort of behavior that would lead to a date!); before we had puppy love, the same phenomenon was known as calf love (in both cases the implication being that such affection was destined to fade as the critters grow up); before a hunk was an attractive man, it was slang for a large, slow, and stupid man; way back when, chaperone was the hood worn by a noblewoman, and only later did it take on the metaphorical meaning of one who "shelters" a young woman from the world; Milton was the first to use the term love-lorn; and concupiscence is just a fancy way of saying the hots. Organized alphabetically, sprinkled with quotations from lovers throughout history, Making Whoopee is brimming with entertaining information, from terms of endearment to the terms of the settlement. And for those of us in love with words, the origins of love words have their own romance. So what is the etymology of the word romance? And for that matter, why is it that a kiss is a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, and when two lovers woo they still say I love you? With wry wit and a wealth of word lore, Evan Morris, aka the Word Detective, a

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