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AMERICAN
ENGLISH COMPENDIUM
RUBINSTEIN, Marv
A portable guidebook for translators, interpreters,
writers, editors, and advanced language students. This expanded second edition
contains American proverbs and expressions, American slang and colloquialisms,
British - U.S. English as well as Australian, South African, Irish, and Indian
English, foreign words used in English, and abbreviations and acronyms. Some
examples of items covered: *If some calls you a "Philadelphia lawyer," should
you take it as a compliment? * What is the difference between "tabling a motion"
in the U.S. and in the U.K.? * Can you distinguish between a tortilla and
a tostada? * A group of lions is called a "pride." What do you call a group
of tigers?
