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by Philip Gooden (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (19 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0713685239
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713685237
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 208,511 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Lively, useful and humourous'. Good Book Guide (September 2007)

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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. Each entry gives a translation of the expression, the language of origin, pronunciation, an insightful comment on usage, plus illuminating examples from the press. A Pretentiousness Index will help you avoid committing the ultimate faux pas(!). If you have ever been bamboozled by the use of a foreign word or phrase, or simply want to spice up your vocabulary with some well chosen bons mots, then this is the book for you. Thousands of foreign terms have been absorbed into the English language from the everyday (kowtow) to the relatively obscure (auto-da-fe). Faux Pas? focuses on familiar terms and expressions as well as those that are new, curious or amusing.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!, 26 Mar 2006
By Daniel Halevi Bloom (bubbie.zadie@gmail.com) - See all my reviews
Great book, and an important one in this global village we now live
in. One quibble from the American side of the Pond. Most of the
context statements are from British papers, and some of the references
are hard to understand for us Yankees. Case in point: Gooden cites a
piece from the Guardian newspaper in the UK for the Japanese term
"hara kiri" (Japanese ritual suicide), and the sentence from the UK
paper goes: "Politically, any school remaining bog standard nowawdays
in committing hara-kiri." So what does bog standard mean? We need
another book guide to Britishisms! In the meantime, this book is no
faux pas at all, but a ters bon good one.
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