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Author: Alan Bliss Publisher: ISBN: Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 389
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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: Alan Bliss Publisher: ISBN: Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 389
Book Description
"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: Jennifer Speake Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198610519 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 512
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Entries provide definitions and information on the origins, history, and usage of terms of foreign origin in English, including words in common use and artistic and scientific vocabulary.
Author: A J Bliss Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504082605 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 552
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A fascinating A-to-Z reference to foreign words and phrases that have become part of contemporary English usage. The English language has been greatly enriched by a vast array of words and phrases imported from other tongues, such as comrade, chateau, wunderkind, and vox populi. For the average English speaker, many are bound to be familiar. Some may even appear to be standard English, while others may seem, well,foreign. A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases presents a comprehensive list of such terms, with entries that reveal their meanings and etymologies.
Author: Mary Varchaver Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 0470249412 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 166
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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, Ph.D Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442234016 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 246
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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 Bliss
Author: Alan Bliss
Author: Jennifer Speake
Author: A J Bliss
Author: Press Boulevard Company Staff
Author: Mary Varchaver
Author: Maxim Newmark, Ph.D
Author: Martin H. Manser
Author: Alan Joseph Bliss
Author: Maxim Newmark
Author: Maxim Newmark