How to Sound Really Clever Hubert van den Bergh

Name: How to Sound Really Clever von Hubert van den Bergh
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How to Sound Really Clever Zusammenfassung

How to Sound Really Clever: 600 Words You Need to Know Hubert van den Bergh

Outfoxed by words like condign, Zelig-like and agitprop? Unsure of the true meanings of nonplussed, disinterested and gauntlet? How to Sound Really Clever explains over 600 words that you really ought to know but haven't had time to look up in the dictionary. In this sequel to the bestselling How to Sound Clever, author Hubert van den Bergh brings together more words that have made him raise an admiring eyebrow when hearing them trip off other people's tongues, or smile when seeing them in newsprint. The stories behind the everyday words that pepper this book may surprise you - like that behind pastiche (and why it derives from the Italian for 'piecrust') - and will help you clear up those linguistic riddles that no one around a dinner table ever seems to be able to explain.

How to Sound Really Clever Bewertungen

A very handy resource when you need to make those fine distinctions between the ego and the superego, if you can't tell your exogenous from your endogenous or need to understand what makes for a diegetic soundtrack in a film. How to Sound Really Clever is a teasing mixture of the half-familiar and the intriguingly obscure, and it's all done with a light touch. -- Philip Gooden * Author *
This witty book is an alphabetical list of less usual words and expressions which might impress others. Some are recondite, some are more familiar, with clear definitions and guidance on usage. I loved it. -- Dr Bernard Lamb * President of the Queen's English Society *

Über Hubert van den Bergh

Hubert van den Bergh has worked in London for the past decade. A language enthusiast, he read French and Linguistics at Oxford University. He is the author of How to Sound Clever (Bloomsbury, 2010) and is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph.

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Sku

GOR012576113

ISBN 13

9781472922472

ISBN 10

1472922476

Titel

How to Sound Really Clever: 600 Words You Need to Know Hubert van den Bergh

Autor

Hubert van den Bergh

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Gebraucht - Wie Neu

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloomsbury Information

Datum

20160825

Anzahl der Seiten

224

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