Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry

Despatches from the hospice of fading words

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
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Author: Ruth Wajnryb ISBN: 9781741760460
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication: July 1, 2007
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Language: English
Author: Ruth Wajnryb
ISBN: 9781741760460
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication: July 1, 2007
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Language: English

Wajnryb is the grammarian you always wanted: wise, wearing her erudition lightly and enlivening it with sly humour.'

Kirkus Reviews

Ruth Wajnryb embarks on a voyage of discovery among the words that once peppered the language of baby boomers and their parents to discover why they seem to be slipping from common use. Why is it that people don't say cheerio' any more, and, come to think of it, why did they in the first place? Do people still tinker with jalopies? And whatever happened to Tom, Dick and Harry, not to mention all those other folk who provided us with such excellent conversational shorthand? Filled with entertaining vignettes and intriguing etymology, Ruth has created an imaginary hospice that offers a caring refuge for pre-loved words that are in imminent danger of being dismissed as obs' (for

obsolete') or arch' (for archaic') in English dictionaries.

Written with Ruth Wajnryb's characteristic intelligence, sly wit and lan, Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry examines the way in which our everyday language reflects and gives expression to the enormous changes that have taken place in our physical and social landscape over the last fifty years or so.

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Wajnryb is the grammarian you always wanted: wise, wearing her erudition lightly and enlivening it with sly humour.'

Kirkus Reviews

Ruth Wajnryb embarks on a voyage of discovery among the words that once peppered the language of baby boomers and their parents to discover why they seem to be slipping from common use. Why is it that people don't say cheerio' any more, and, come to think of it, why did they in the first place? Do people still tinker with jalopies? And whatever happened to Tom, Dick and Harry, not to mention all those other folk who provided us with such excellent conversational shorthand? Filled with entertaining vignettes and intriguing etymology, Ruth has created an imaginary hospice that offers a caring refuge for pre-loved words that are in imminent danger of being dismissed as obs' (for

obsolete') or arch' (for archaic') in English dictionaries.

Written with Ruth Wajnryb's characteristic intelligence, sly wit and lan, Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry examines the way in which our everyday language reflects and gives expression to the enormous changes that have taken place in our physical and social landscape over the last fifty years or so.

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