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The Evasion-English Dictionary is a wicked collection of euphemisms in contemporary speech. A taxonomy of the vexing "like" and "whatever" feature categories of these crutch words, revealing the words' variety and possibilities for manipulation.
First publish date: 2003
Authors: Maggie Balistreri
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