From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations

by Allan Metcalf

Book Overview

From baby boomers with 'groovy' and 'yuppie, ' to Generation X with 'whatever' and 'like, ' each generation inevitably comes to use certain words that are particular to its unique time in history. Those words not only tell us a great deal about the people in those generations, but highlight their differences with other generations.

In this entertaining compilation, Allan Metcalf, author of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019992712X
• ISBN13: 9780199927128
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.1"