Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions
Making Sense of Transatlantic English
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 April 2003
- ISBN 9780195157048
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 244x160x27 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a practical and entertaining guide for sorting out the differences between American and British English. As if written from a point in the Atlantic Ocean exactly between Britain and the US, this book catalogues the differences between the two forms of English in a readable and interesting way.
MoreLong description:
Americans and Britons are exposed to unedited texts, scripts, and speech from one another's dialects at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. Most people have no trouble understanding the general meaning of language in the other dialect, but readers and listeners very often fail to understand or misunderstand critical words, references, and allusions for lack of familiarity of the social and cultural contexts that underlie various usages. This book remedies this gap in understanding by cataloguing the differences that language users on either side of the Atlantic are likely to encounter in their dealings with the other dialect. By taking a culturally neutral stance it addresses the needs of both British and American readers and listeners.
The thematic organization of the book allows the user to access language differences in various subject areas, where words likely to be needed at the same time can all be found together. Chapters include; Politics, Law, and Government; Business and Money; Medicine and Healthcare; Education; Food, Clothing, and Shelter; Transportation; Sports; and Profanity and Obscenity, in addition to basic information on orthography, weights and measures, etc. The appendices and extensive index provide a ready point of entry for quick look-ups, and there will be an extra chapter on Canadian, Australian, and Asian English.
a useful reference book and a fun reference for word lovers
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Arrangement of Letters
A Choice of Words
Money, Work, and Business
The Government and the Law
Education
Sickness and Health
Food, Clothing, and Shelter
Transport(ation)
Sport(s) and Leisure
What You Don't Say
The Stuff of Life
Appendices
Other Major Dialects
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Measures and Numbers
Calendar
Bibliography
Subject Index
Word Index
