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EUPHEMISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
EUPHEMISM. In RHETORIC , (the use of) a mild...Arbiters of usage are generally severe on euphemism. Ronald Ridout and Clifford Witting...claim that people ‘commit a euphemism’ when trying to hide something...
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Metaphors and Euphemisms
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...horror, through the use of metaphor and euphemism when describing the dead. In daily conversations...kicking the bucket." On the other hand, euphemism has a long tradition of use when dealing...1989), William Lutz distinguishes euphemism, which covers the unpleasant, from...
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DOUBLESPEAK
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...limits thought. Doublespeak can be discussed in terms of euphemism, bureaucratese, JARGON , and inflated language. In 1984...world it would no longer use the word killing but instead the euphemism unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life . When asked why...
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Yezidis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...them is the peacock, a symbol of the seven angels who cooperated in the creation of the world. The peacock angel is their euphemism for evil. They believe evil is a part of the divinity, along with good. Thus they are more properly seen as dualists rather...
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Eichmann, Adolf: Israeli Capture
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...ghettos. In 1942, he organized the Wansee Conference, a meeting of Nazi officials to devise the "Final Solution," the Nazi euphemism for the extermination of European Jews. Eichmann supervised the creation and operation of death camps, and set Nazi policy...
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Arms Control and Arms Race
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...international politics involving the reduction or elimination of weapons or the tensions that lead to their use, and even as a euphemism for militarily enforced disarmament, like that imposed on Iraq by the United Nations in the 1990s. But such phenomena often...
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Layoffs, Downsizing, and Outsourcing
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...labor if contracts don't renew or the business does not pick up. In the last decade or so the layoff itself has become a euphemism for force reduction. It is a telling sign of the times that DOL began collecting data on layoffs in April 1995 for the first...
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SLANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Slanguage of Sex: A Dictionary of Modern Sexual Terms (1984), Brigid McConville and John Shearlaw define a slanguage as ‘an underground language’ of simile, metaphor, euphemism, and innuendo. Compare ARGOT .
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DIMINUTIVE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...affection, dismissal, etc.: Will , Willie , Willy (and, in baby talk, the double diminutive Willikins) and Bill , Billy as short forms of William , and willie as a euphemism for the penis. See CLIPPING , L-SOUNDS , SCOTS , SEXISM .
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GOWERS, (Sir) Ernest (Arthur)
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...sensible and sensitive authority on usage and style led to his being invited to revise FOWLER'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE (2nd edition, 1965). See EFFECTIVE WRITING , EUPHEMISM , HOUSE STYLE , PUN , USAGE GUIDANCE AND CRITICISM .
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