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2017
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English
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Décharné traces the colorful history of slang, from Elizabethan highwaymen to the rap and hip-hop of today. He shows how meanings change over years; introduces us to flying aces, pickpockets, and carnival geeks who have left their impression on our language; and shows how slang leaks into the mainstream to infuse language with vitality.
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1998
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English
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The colloquial Spanish of everyday conversation and commerce is rarely taught in the language classroom. The Street Spanish Series fills this gap, supplying non-native speakers with the vernacular, vocabulary, and odd constructions needed to avoid embarrassment and communicate effectively in any situation. The third guide provides 10 easy lessons on expletives, euphemisms, and obscenities.
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1917
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English
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In 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was making its way from New York to Liverpool when it was sunk by a German U-boat, shocking the world with the massive death toll. Infuriated by the tragedy, Arthur Guy Empey, an American citizen, traveled to England to enlist in the Royal Fusiliers, as the United States had not yet entered the war. Over the Top tells the story of Empey's experiences in a voice straight from the western front, causing...
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2009
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English
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Discusses those "verbal fossils" that remain embedded in our national conversation long after the topic they refer to has galloped off into the sunset. Mrs. Robinson, Edsel, "Catch-22", Gangbusters, "Alphonse and Gaston", or "Where's the beef?" are just a few of the "retroterms" that can be found in this word-lover's store of trivia and obscure references.
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2022
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English
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"Throw a Hail Mary! Pass the pigskin! Catch a pick six! This book presents wacky lingo and puzzling phrases from the football field. Explore the origins of these words and phrases - from 'touchdown' to 'red zone' - and discover how college and pro players use them on the gridiron" -- Back cover.
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2022
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English
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"Put on your bucket, pick up your wig, and put the biscuit in the basket! Learn the lingo of the collest game on Earth in Hocky Talk. ... Explore the origins of these words and phrases - from five hole to face wash - and discover how college and pro players use them on and off the ice" -- Publisher's website.
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2018.
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English
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"This highly entertaining, crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs quick-read charts, diagrams, explications and strategies to take readers' salty skills to the next level. Offering guidance, history and etymology, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more, How to Swear celebrates the rude ingenuity of using a single naughty word to express surprise, excitement, anger, joy, or disgust, limited only by...
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2017
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English
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The down and dirty phrases you need to speak German like a local-from tech speak to talking smack with fellow sports fans.
Drinking a Hefeweizen at a Biergarten...
Dancing at Berlin's hottest club...
Cheering for the local soccer team at the Stadion...
Ditch the textbook dialogues and learn to really engage in meaningful (and sometimes meaningless) conversations with lifelong German speakers. From getting a date to hailing an Uber driver, you'll...
15) Mexislang
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[2018]
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English
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2017
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English
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There's a difference between learning a language and being able to speak it with the familiarity of a native speaker. This book fills that gap, clarifying tricky words and expressions and illuminating the finer points of Spanish wordplay and double meanings.
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2013
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English
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Few areas of human endeavor have produced more-or more colorful-terms than has the military. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have over centuries come up with words, phrases, and acronyms to express everything from raw emotion to complex technology. The military is both a distinctive way of life and a community, and a command of its slang is essential to admission to full membership within the group.
Most military slang is almost always familiar...
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2004
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English
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From the homegrown "boodle" of the 19th century to current "misunderstandistan" in the Middle East, America's foremost expert on slang reveals military lingo at its most colorful, innovative, brutal, and ironic. Author Paul Dickson introduces some of the "new words and phrases born of conflict, boredom, good humor, bad food, new technology, and the pure horror of war." This newly updated reference extends to the post-9/11 world and the American military...
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2020
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English
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"Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know)-vagrantsand refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." And beginning with Martin Luther, German Protestants...
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WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan
Publication Date
[2022]
Edition
[Revised edition].
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Español
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"La capacidad de hablar inglés americano, es muy esencial e importante. Abarca todos los aspectos de las conversaciones en el trabajo, los negocios, la escuela, los medios de comunicación, la radiodifusión, las compras, las relaciones, los conocidos sociales, el comercio, las reuniones, las negociaciones, etc. Sin embargo, el inglés varía mucho de un país a otro. De hecho, los hablantes nativos de cualquier lugar acuñan (o "inventan") palabras...
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