"The kushmaker" and other essays on folk speech and folk humor /
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Burlington, Vt. :
"Proverbium" in association with the Dept. of German and Russian, University of Vermont,
2008.
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| Series: | Supplement series of Proverbium ;
v. 26. |
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Table of Contents:
- The kushmaker
- The Henny-penny phenomenon: a study of folk phonological esthetics in American speech
- "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras": a folk medical diagnostic proverb / with Lauren Dundes and Michael Streiff)
- Much ado about "Sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech
- "What if Mahomet won't go for the mountain": an analysis of an Arabic-Islamic joke
- Towards a metaphorical reading of "Break a leg": a note on the folklore of the stage
- An uplifting origin of 86
- On the possible African origin of Jigaboo
- "Jumping the broom": on the origin and meaning of an African American wedding custom
- "Praise not the day before the night": guessing age and provenance
- "As the crow flies": a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech
- From jock to joke: the sic transit of O.J. Simpson
- Arse longa, vita brevis: jokes about AIDs
- Six inches from the presidency: the Gary Hart jokes as public opinion
- The Clinton joke: not over till the punchline
- Viola jokes: a study of second string humor / with Meegan M. Brown
- Foolproof: a sampling of mathematical folk humor / with Paul Renteln.