the book about the words we use for our bodies
Did you know:
• CALLIPYGIAN means “having beautiful buttocks”?
• The word SIDEBURNS comes to us courtesy of U.S. Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside?
• Victorian poet Robert Browning used a very rude word but never knew it?
A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal Knowledge is also the perfect gift for anyone interested in the human body and the many ways it’s been described.
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As (now former) co-host on NPR’s A Way With Words and author of some pretty funny and informative books, I was thrilled when Richard gave me a blurb for Carnal Knowledge.
He said:
Everybody’s body is so close to them that they take it for granted. In Carnal Knowledge, master etymologist Charles Hodgson offers a passionate lesson in body language that illuminates how just about every part of the amazing human chassis got its name.
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