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Paperback:
9780715645680 | Gardners Books, July 18, 2013, cover price $21.75
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9781451628258 | Free Pr, January 10, 2012, cover price $25.99
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9781451628265 | Free Pr, October 2, 2012, cover price $18.00
Product Description: This original, entertaining, and surprising book is a natural history of things we wish we didn't say (but do), as well as a look at what happens in American culture (and others) when we do (and wish we didn't). Covering a vast array of verbal blunders, from Spoonerisms to malapropisms to "uh" and "um," linguist and author Erard provides a look into the science to explain why they happen and a look at society for how they're received in everyday life, in politics, and in the popular culture...read more
Hardcover:
9780375423567 | Pantheon Books, August 7, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Looks at the human propensity for verbal blunders, examining the nature of such verbal errors as slips, bloopers, spoonerisms, and malapropisms and assesses what these blunders mean in terms of the human brain and the use of language.
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9781400095438 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 12, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This original, entertaining, and surprising book is a natural history of things we wish we didn't say (but do), as well as a look at what happens in American culture (and others) when we do (and wish we didn't).
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