Bad Words, Gooden Philip

Автор: Gooden, Philip
Название: Faux pas?
ISBN: 0713685239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713685237
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Winner of the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award 2006. An award winning language book, this is a lively and engaging expose on the foreign words and phrases that populate our language.

Автор: Gooden Philip
Название: Story of English
ISBN: 0857383280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857383280
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet.

Автор: Philip Gooden & Peter Lewis
Название: Idiomantics: The Weird World of Popular Phrases
ISBN: 1408151448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408151440
Издательство: A & C Black
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Описание: Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. To cite three examples - from American English, Dutch and Italian - what on Earth are a snow job, a monkey sandwich story, and Mr Punch`s secret? Idiomantics explains all...

Автор: Philip Gooden, Peter Lewis
Название: The Word at War
ISBN: 1472922484 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472922489
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the 'Dunkirk spirit' whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and Roosevelt's famous description of Pearl Harbor as 'a date which will live in infamy' was echoed by many US commentators after the 9/11 attacks. So far, so familiar. Or is it? How many of us know, for instance, that 'Keep Calm and Carry On', far from achieving its morale-boosting aim, was considered at the time to be deeply patronizing by the people it was directed at, and so had only limited distribution? The Word at War explores 100 phrases spawned and popularized in the lead-up and during the conflict of World War Two. Substantial essays explore and explain the derivations of, and the stories behind, popular terms and phraseology of the period, including wartime speeches (and the words of Churchill, Hitler and FDR); service slang; national stereotypes; food and drink; and codewords.