What's The Difference?: An American/British - British/American Dictionary
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Pages: Good
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Two nations divided by a common language — Norman Moss's What's the Difference? is the essential, witty guide to navigating the linguistic minefield that separates American English from British English. This compact but authoritative bilingual dictionary presents hundreds of words and phrases that mean entirely different things on either side of the Atlantic, from the innocently confusing to the spectacularly embarrassing, illustrated with characteristic dry humour by the two cartoon characters on its cover whose cross-cultural conversation says it all. Moss, a journalist who spent years working between the United States and Britain, brings a sharp insider's eye to the subtleties of vocabulary, idiom, and social nuance that trip up even the most well-travelled speakers. What's the Difference? is more than a reference work — it is a cultural document that illuminates how history, class, and national identity are encoded in everyday speech, leaving the reader to wonder just how much is truly lost, or hilariously gained, in translation.
Author: Norman Moss
Format: Paperback
Genre: Dictionaries
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Two nations divided by a common language — Norman Moss's What's the Difference? is the essential, witty guide to navigating the linguistic minefield that separates American English from British English. This compact but authoritative bilingual dictionary presents hundreds of words and phrases that mean entirely different things on either side of the Atlantic, from the innocently confusing to the spectacularly embarrassing, illustrated with characteristic dry humour by the two cartoon characters on its cover whose cross-cultural conversation says it all. Moss, a journalist who spent years working between the United States and Britain, brings a sharp insider's eye to the subtleties of vocabulary, idiom, and social nuance that trip up even the most well-travelled speakers. What's the Difference? is more than a reference work — it is a cultural document that illuminates how history, class, and national identity are encoded in everyday speech, leaving the reader to wonder just how much is truly lost, or hilariously gained, in translation.