Divided By A Common Language
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Divided by a Common Language
Author: Christopher Davies
language: en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: 2007-09-26
This guide to the language differences between the United States and United Kingdom is “a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Taxi rank . . . toad in the hole . . . dustman . . . fancy dress . . . American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like caboose, bleachers, and busboy. In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. This delightful book is the ideal companion for travelers—or anyone who enjoys the many nuances of language.
American and British English
Author: Paul Baker
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2017-09-28
Is British English becoming more like American English? Paul Baker tracks the changes, trends and distinctions of both languages to answer this question.
Divided by A Common Language
Author: S. W. Well
language: en
Publisher: Suntific, Books by the Intellectual Engagé for Intellectuals
Release Date: 2013-01-31
Never before was a book about the Chinese language written in such great details and covering all aspects of the language in one fascinating story. This is an elaborately illustrated book about the Chinese language covering Mandarin pronunciations, the etymology of the fascinating Chinese characters, the characteristics of the Chinese language, the glory, chagrin, dismemberment, and reduction of the Chinese characters that left us the two versions of Chinese language today, the Standard and the Simplified, and the outcry of the Chinese people to return to using the Standard. This is the book for everyone who maintains a fundamental interest in the Chinese language and culture, a book for the novice and experienced as well as foreigners and natives of the Chinese language.