Much Ado About English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language - Rilegato

Todd, Richard Watson

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ISBN 10: 1857883721 ISBN 13: 9781857883725

Casa editrice: Nicholas Brealey Pub, 2006

Riassunto

A lighthearted celebration of the euphemisms, metaphors, and double negatives of the English language considers its inconsistencies, the characteristics of an antimetabole, and the four plurals of "rhinoceros."

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L'autore:

Richard Watson Todd graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in Accounting & Finance before realizing the career was not for him. After a new course and several years working abroad, Watson Todd received a Master's degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. He returned to Thailand where he has been ever since. He has consulted to both the World Bank and the Thai Ministry of Education and is head of the Centre for Research at the School of Liberal Arts at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in Bangkok. He is the author of several books, a regular contributor to the Bangkok Post and runs the Big Applied Linguistics Database. Watson Todd lives in Thailand.

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Book by Richard Watson Todd

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• Editore: Nicholas Brealey Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1857883721
• ISBN 13: 9781857883725
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 148