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Author | : Mary Varchaver |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2007-08-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0470249412 |
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"Kudos (Greek), encomiums (Latin), and accolades (French) to the authors for their enlightening and amusing lexicon, a testament that English is the most cheerfully democratic and hospitable language ever cobbled together."-Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language From angst to zydeco, the ultimate guide to foreign terms and phrases This handy, practical, and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce, and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. The Browser's Dictionary covers a wide variety of subject areas and includes loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world, such as: Latin (desideratum) * the romance languages (rapprochement, macho, imbroglio) * German (gestalt) * Russian (gulag) * Hebrew (shibboleth) * Yiddish (shtick) * Persian (tambura) * Hindi (purdah) * Arabic (loofah) * Hawaiian (kanaka) * Creole French (zydeco) * and Japanese (netsuke) In addition, each entry provides: * A guide to pronunciation using easy-to-understand transcriptions from ordinary English * Comprehensive literal and idiomatic definitions * The word's source language, as well as its literal meaning The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases is sure to become a favorite reference for anyone with an interest in words and language.
Author | : Maxim Newmark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Alan Bliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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"A guide to the foreign words and phrases that other dictionaries usually omit features more than five thousand comprehensive listings, including words and phrases from more than thirty-five languages." -- Amazon.com.
Author | : Maxim Newmark, Ph.D |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1950-01-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1442234016 |
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Compiled from English sources and containing foreign words, phrases, mottos, proverbs, place names, titles, allusions and abbreviations from the Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Hebrew and other foreign languages, together with English equivalents and definitions and a supplement in Greek orthography
Author | : Alan Joseph Bliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Adrian Room |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780304363148 |
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Author | : Maxim Newmark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan Joseph Bliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan Joseph Bliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Maxim Newmark |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780802212061 |
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