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A handy, practical, and browsable A-Z reference of over 2,000 useful foreign words and phrases from languages throughout the world that have crept into written and spoken English, from hoi polloi to ersatz. "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
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- Author
- Varchaver, Mary, Moore, Frank Ledlie
- Publisher
- Book Sales; Castle Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780785821564
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Reference, Fiction, Language Learning
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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