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The recent fun "strine" articles in True prompted a reader to send this one in: a "dictionary" to translate The Queen's English to American English. The author is Scottish, and he "discovered a bewildering array of words which are in common use on our side of the pond and invariably mean nothing at all or something exceedingly rude on the other side." His original 15 words have grown quite a bit into a pretty big, and pretty interesting, site. From This is True for 19 March 2006 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: if you're interested in sociology of sport you'll enjoy this book. some very interesting ideas.  by Bill Bryson Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: There is one thing about Bill Bryson; you either like him or you don't. Just reading the reviews here on Amazon and several other sites prove that. It is not just this work in question though; it is all of his work. I note that drifting from site ...  by Justine Vaisutis Amazon Price: $19.79 Customer Review: from what i can tell, it is a good guide book. however it hasnt been indexed this means that you cant type in a word like a park name and go to it directly. instead you must seqentially go through every pqge in a chapter until you find it  by J. Maarten Troost Amazon Price: $10.08 Customer Review: I stumbled on this book while traveling with my husband in Bolivia. Being somewhat limited in what English books we could find at book exchanges, we had gotten used to reading just about anything, as long as it was indeed in English. What a surpris...  by Kate Morton Amazon Price: $17.16 Customer Review: A 4-year old girl arrives on the docks in Australia alone and unable to share her name with the dockmaster. Taking pity on the girl the dockmaster takes her home with him. Having experienced several miscarriages the couple raise the girl as their ... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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