| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 162 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: prominent terrorist becomes pronoun; summary -- Reformation -- The original guy -- The first public guy -- First Bonfire Day -- Gunpowder Days in England: the Pope and the guy -- Pope night in America: diminishing guy in the new world -- My pronoun, 'tis of thee: thou art lost and gone forever -- Guys in rags -- Ladies and gentlemen -- Roadblocks -- Modern Guy Fawkes -- Guys victorious -- The future |
| Summary |
""Guy"" and ""guys"" are used so ubiquitously in daily conversation, we scarcely notice them. But both derive from the name of England's greatest terrorist, Guy Fawkes. Acclaimed expert on words Allan Metcalf dives deep into the strange and unprecedented history of America's favorite and most controversial pronoun. Along the way, a cast of characters as interesting as Guy Fawkes himself make an appearance, including kings and queens of England, popes, George Washington, show tunes' crooners, and today's Occupy protesters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 27, 2020) |
| Subject |
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606.
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| SUBJECT |
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606 fast |
| Subject |
Guy (The English word)
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Gunpowder Plot, 1605.
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Guy (The English word)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019981546 |
| ISBN |
9780190060794 |
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0190060794 |
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0190669225 |
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9780190669218 |
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0190669217 |
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9780190669225 |
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