Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe - Brossura

Dickson, Paul

 
9780877796169: Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe

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These are the polite versions. Most are the standard English form such as Costa Rican and Grand Forker. Also includes nicknames such as Hoosier (Indiana) and Hogtowner (Toronto) and some foreign terms, especially Spanish and French. Lists both places and names, and traces the origin of many of the unusually terms. Well cross-referenced. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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9780060881641: Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe

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ISBN 10:  006088164X ISBN 13:  9780060881641
Casa editrice: Harper Paperbacks, 2006
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