Linda Berdoll

Texan Linda Berdoll is author of the wildly popular "Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife" and "Darcy and Elizabeth." While researching the Regency era, she came across so many unusual and hilarious euphemisms that she had to share them in her new book, "Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms." In doing so, she has taken a stand against the overuse of four-letter words, offering (if one is disposed to need it) an equally insulting term that will not make your Grandma swoon.