From Skedaddle to Selfie Words of the Generations
From Skedaddle to Selfie Words of the Generations
- ISBN 13:
9780199927128
- ISBN 10:
019992712X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/02/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In this entertaining compilation, Allan Metcalf, author of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, shows that each generation--those born within the same roughly 20-year time period--can be identified and characterized by its key words. Metcalf tells the story of the history and usage of these words, starting with the American Revolution and ending with the post-Millennial Homeland generation. With special attention to the differences in vocabulary among today's generations--the sometimes awkward Millennials, the grunge music of Generation X, hippies among the Boomers, and bobbysoxers among the Silents--From Skeddadle to Selfie compiles dozens of words we thought we knew, and tells the unheard stories of each and how they accompanied its generation through its time.