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Cassell's Foreign Words and Phrases - Cassell Reference

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The English language is packed with imported words and phrases from languages ancient and modern and CASSELL'S FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES is an engrossing guide. This book goes far beyond the partial coverage of conventional dictionaries and includes a vast range of everyday vocabulary, specialist terms and famous tags and mottos. Each entry is defined and dated with details of derivation and pronunciation.

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Published
08/08/2002

Publisher
Cassell Reference

ISBN
9780304357666

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The English language is enceinte with words stolen from other languages, and their numbers are constantly growing as new terms and concepts flow from all over the world. This reference book collects together 5,000 imports into English, from boudoir to paella, ego to menu, to express those things in our language which have already been expressed so well in another that they must be poached. Not only providing a clear pronunciation guide, each entry gives information on when the word was first used in English, and from where the word came. A fascinating reference book for anyone interested in the etymology of English words. (Kirkus UK)