Fülszöveg
riMMÉ
DEDE
From the well-known (ciao, ballerína) to the rather
less familiar (Quatsch, Frokost, dubash), this dictionaiy defines more than 15,000 foreign words and phrases, from more than fifty languages, that have strayed into English.
Drawing on art, music, literature, cooking, diplomacy, fashion, law, philosophy and a myriad of othersubjects,
and on languages from ancient Greek to modern Russian and from Afrikaans to Zulu, here are terms that have settled down in our language to the point where we take them for granted, along with others that are very occasional visitors. Also included are hundreds of proverbs and sayings from other languages, from French (il ne fautpas vendre le peau de Vours auant de I'avoir tué\ one must not sell the bear's skin before one has killed it) to ancient Greek (jtoUoI yág elöiv xXtitoI ö>.ÍYOi ÓE éxXexToi: for many are called, but few are chosen).
Erudite and entertaining, the dictionary brings together in one volume information ordinarily...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
riMMÉ
DEDE
From the well-known (ciao, ballerína) to the rather
less familiar (Quatsch, Frokost, dubash), this dictionaiy defines more than 15,000 foreign words and phrases, from more than fifty languages, that have strayed into English.
Drawing on art, music, literature, cooking, diplomacy, fashion, law, philosophy and a myriad of othersubjects,
and on languages from ancient Greek to modern Russian and from Afrikaans to Zulu, here are terms that have settled down in our language to the point where we take them for granted, along with others that are very occasional visitors. Also included are hundreds of proverbs and sayings from other languages, from French (il ne fautpas vendre le peau de Vours auant de I'avoir tué\ one must not sell the bear's skin before one has killed it) to ancient Greek (jtoUoI yág elöiv xXtitoI ö>.ÍYOi ÓE éxXexToi: for many are called, but few are chosen).
Erudite and entertaining, the dictionary brings together in one volume information ordinarily to be found only on a shelf full of reference books. Ideal for the browser with a taste for the curious, the book also has a full English index, making it equally useful for teachers, students, travellers, diplomats and secretaries, as well as for anyone who reads or writes.
Vissza