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Author Jacot de Boinod, Adam.

Title The meaning of tingo and other extraordinary words from around the world / Adam Jacot de Boinod.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  418 JACOT DE BOINOD    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  418 BOI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  418 BOINOD    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Contents Meeting and greeting -- From top to toe -- Movers and shakers -- Getting around -- It takes all sorts -- Falling in love -- The family circle -- Clocking on -- Time off -- Eating and drinking -- Below par -- From cradle to grave -- Otherworldly -- All creatures great and small -- Whatever the weather -- Hearing things -- Seeing things -- Number crunching -- What's in a name?
Summary A garden of delights for the word obsessed: a world tour of the best of all those strange words that don't have a precise English equivalent, the ones that tell us so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations and expand our minds. Did you know that people in Bolivia have a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night and it's all their fault"? This collection of trivia from more than 254 languages also includes a frank discussion of exactly how many Eskimo words there are for snow. So, what in fact is "tingo"? In the Pascuense language of Easter Island, it's to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by asking to borrow them. Well, of course it is.--From publisher description.
Subject Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases.
Indexed Term Philology-Linguistics
Lexicography
ISBN 1594200866
9781594200861
0140515615
9780140515619
9780143038528 paperback
0143038524 paperback
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