Cassell's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases Adrian Room

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The English language is packed with imported words and phrases from languages ancient and modern. This guide to these words goes far beyond the partial coverage of conventional dictionaries and includes a vast range of everyday vocabulary, specialist terms and famous tags and mottos.

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Cassell's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases by Adrian Room

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.

About Adrian Room

Adrian Room is the author of over 50 popular reference books, mainly on the origins of words. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society and the American Name Society. His work for Cassell includes CASSELL'S DICTIONARY OF FIRST NAMES, CASSELL'S DICTIONARY OF WORD HISTORIES, BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE and other titles in the Brewer's series.

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Sku

GOR001955278

ISBN 13

9780304357666

ISBN 10

0304357669

Title

Cassell's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases by Adrian Room

Author

Adrian Room

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

2002-08-08

Number of pages

416

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