Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk Sayings

Bob Bohlken

ISBN 10: 0930643348 / ISBN 13: 9780930643348

Verlag: Images Unlimited Publishing, 2015

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9780930643348

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Do you want to better understand Midwestern talk and bring color to YOUR speech? You'll have fun associating popular phrases, sayings and curious expressions to their meanings and uses.

These down-home sayings celebrate the wisdom and commonsense values of America's heartland. They touch on topics related to weather, money, love, sex and marriage, food, sports and other events.

Author Bob Bohlken has chronicled these sayings and expressions from an almost lost early rural culture into this entertaining guide. He has shown that the power of verbal suggestion can give different meanings to words and expressions.

Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk Sayings will make a fun gift for country folks and anyone who enjoys language humor. If you're ready to "chew the fat" and "strike while the iron is hot", then this book's for you. Click the order button above. You'll want to buy two, one to keep and one to give away.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk ...
Verlag: Images Unlimited Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New
Auflage: 2nd Revised ed.