Faux pas?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Foreign Words and Phrases in Everyday Language [Audiobook] download free by Philip Gooden
- Listen audiobook: Faux pas?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Foreign Words and Phrases in Everyday Language
- Author: Philip Gooden
- Release date: 2007/1/9
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Reference
- ISBN: 9780713685237
- Rating: 7.03 of 10
- Votes: 611
- Review by: Chandler Skaggs
- Review rating: 9.11 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/10
- Duration: 2H56M28S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, WMA, MP3, FLAC, MPEG-4 SLS (compression BZ2, RAR, Z, TAR.BZ, ZIP, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M46S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Winner of the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award 2006. An award winning language book, this is a lively and engaging expose on the foreign words and phrases that populate our language. Each entry gives a translation of the expression, the language of origin, pronunciation, an insightful comment on usage, plus illuminating examples from the press. A Pretentiousness Index will help you avoid committing the ultimate faux pas(!). If you have ever been bamboozled by the use of a foreign word or phrase, or simply want to spice up your vocabulary with some well chosen bons mots, then this is the book for you. Thousands of foreign terms have been absorbed into the English language from the everyday (kowtow) to the relatively obscure (auto-da-fe). Faux Pas? focuses on familiar terms and expressions as well as those that are new, curious or amusing.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Dictionaries Of Quotations, Literary Studies: General, Historical & Comparative Linguistics, Dictionaries & Dictionary Books, Usage & Grammar Guides
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.57 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x17mm
- Weight: 234g
- Printed by: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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