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British English for American Readers

Author : David Grote
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book British English for American Readers written by David Grote and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-08-24 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a vicar differ from a rector? Is a marquis a lord? Where are the Home Counties? Is someone who is dead chuffed happy or angry? Americans reading British literature, come upon such unfamiliar terms and generally have to rely on contextual clues. For the legions of readers of Dickens and Trollope, of Agatha Christie, John LeCarre, and P.D. James, of Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, of Noel Coward and Tom Stoppard--to name a few--as well as viewers of British film and television imports, this helpful and entertaining guide defines the kinds of things that British authors thought needed no explanation. Part dictionary, part guidebook, part almanac, part gazetter, part history, part sociology, this lexicon has no specialty, for it deals with British culture in general. David Grote's guiding principle was to select terminology with the potential to confuse readers who know only American English. Consequently, the volume is organized as a dictionary, with entries for concepts, items, and names that might create confusion. Entries are arranged alphabetically, from ten basic categories: (1) titles, ranks, and honours; (2) widely used words not part of the typical American vocabulary; (3) words used differently in America and Britain; (4) customs, terminology, and activities of daily life not shared by Americans; (5) governmental organizations; (6) political and legal customs and methods; (7) communities, and places often used in literary works; (8) foods and common commercial products; (9) common animals and plants not found in the same form in America; and (10) basic social practices that differ considerably from modern American practice. Ideally kept on hand for ready referral when immersed in fictional Britain, this dictionary will make for many enjoyable hours of random or systematic browsing. A true companion to British literature, its concern is not authors and literary history, but the slang, bureaucracy, stereotypes of places, food and products used in daily life, social organization, and hundreds of such homespun items.

British and American Short Stories

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780582419247
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book British and American Short Stories written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by Longman. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Penguin Readers' is a series of novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduces students at all levels to the pleasures of reading.

That's Not English

Author : Erin Moore
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784701912
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book That's Not English written by Erin Moore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language. You'll discover why Americans give - and take - so many bloody compliments and never, ever say 'shall' (well hardly ever), as well as what the British really mean when they say 'proper', why they believe it is better to be bright than clever and how the word sorry has at least eight different meanings for them.

A Kill in the Morning

Author : Graeme Shimmin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448171636
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book A Kill in the Morning written by Graeme Shimmin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I don’t like killing, but I’m good at it. Murder isn’t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though – a garrotte around a target’s neck or a knife in their heart – it’s not for me. Too much empathy, that’s my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different . . . ‘ The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany. In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter, and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker hidden deep beneath the German countryside, scientists are experimenting with a force far beyond their understanding. Into this arena steps a nameless British assassin, on the run from a sinister cabal within his own government, and planning a private war against the Nazis. And now the fate of the world rests on a single kill in the morning . . .

British and American Festivities

Author : Gina D. B. Clemen
Publisher : Uitgeverij De Boeck Secundair onderwijs
ISBN 13 : 9788853001948
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book British and American Festivities written by Gina D. B. Clemen and published by Uitgeverij De Boeck Secundair onderwijs. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FESTIVALS Why do we celebrate Halloween? What do people do to celebrate the New Year? Why is the egg a symbol of Easter? Who invented the Christmas card? This unique book explores the origins of our festivities, their historical significance, and how we celebrate them today. The audio-cd contains recordings in both American English and British English.

The Duke Who Didn't

Author : Courtney Milan
Publisher : Courtney Milan
ISBN 13 : 1937248712
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Duke Who Didn't written by Courtney Milan and published by Courtney Milan. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Chloe Fong has plans for her life, lists for her days, and absolutely no time for nonsense. Three years ago, she told her childhood sweetheart that he could talk to her once he planned to be serious. He disappeared that very night. Except now he’s back. Jeremy Wentworth, the Duke of Lansing, has returned to the tiny village he once visited with the hope of wooing Chloe. In his defense, it took him years of attempting to be serious to realize that the endeavor was incompatible with his personality. All he has to do is convince Chloe to make room for a mischievous trickster in her life, then disclose that in all the years they’ve known each other, he’s failed to mention his real name, his title… and the minor fact that he owns her entire village. Only one thing can go wrong: Everything.

The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490680
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe written by Ann Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.

That's Not English

Author : Erin Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698186303
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book That's Not English written by Erin Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expat’s witty and insightful exploration of English and American cultural differences through the lens of language that will leave readers gobsmacked In That’s Not English, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a historic and fascinating cultural divide. In each of the thirty chapters, Erin Moore explains a different word we use that says more about us than we think. For example, "Quite" exposes the tension between English reserve and American enthusiasm; in "Moreish," she addresses our snacking habits. In "Partner," she examines marriage equality; in "Pull," the theme is dating and sex; "Cheers" is about drinking; and "Knackered" covers how we raise our kids. The result is a cultural history in miniature and an expatriate’s survival guide. American by birth, Moore is a former book editor who specialized in spotting British books—including Eats, Shoots & Leaves—for the US market. She’s spent the last seven years living in England with her Anglo American husband and a small daughter with an English accent. That’s Not English is the perfect companion for modern Anglophiles and the ten million British and American travelers who visit one another’s countries each year.

Divided by a Common Language

Author : Christopher Davies
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547350288
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Divided by a Common Language written by Christopher Davies and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the language differences between the United States and United Kingdom is “a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Taxi rank . . . toad in the hole . . . dustman . . . fancy dress . . . American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like caboose, bleachers, and busboy. In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. This delightful book is the ideal companion for travelers—or anyone who enjoys the many nuances of language.

British and American Short Stories

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book British and American Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading the World

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099584643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Ann Morgan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message- reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times

The American Reader

Author : Paulo Sergio Santos Negrete
Publisher : Clube de Autores
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Reader written by Paulo Sergio Santos Negrete and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Suggestopedia and the New developments of Neuroscience This wonderful method, which has its origins in the science of Suggestology, accelerates the learning process up to 10 times more than any conventional method. It has several positive by-products, such as psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic effects in the Suggestopedic environment created in the classroom. During my years of teaching English as a foreign Language, I could never accept the fact that my students needed so many years to start speaking a new language with confidence. Some others, even with years of study and dedication could not develop, despite my efforts to create better classes and activities. Others had constantly to review the verb to be . The results? The students were afraid of speaking and learning. Many people may ask: But how can it be possible to learn effectively in a short time? What s the secret? Others say: That s impossible! It is just propaganda! But actually, we are beings with an incredible power to learn, but the Social Suggestive Norms so present in our pedagogical system for centuries dictates how much we can learn and how long we need to. But I ask you: How did we learn our mother language? How could our brain collect, organize, understand and reproduce words and sentences when we were children? No one went to school to learn to speak. Our parents or who may have raised us never taught us grammar in order to make us speak. We can realize that we are missing something in our system of foreign language teaching. It does not use the resources available in our brain/mind. Our way of teaching in the present is not structured to follow the way the brain receives stores and processes information. So, why not to change the whole system? The answer is quite simple. Who wants to train teachers? Change textbooks and methods? How long would it take? But the fact is that more scientists are discovering what Dr. Lozanov did decades ago when he didn t have the technology we have today. Our researchers have noticed that our system is not the best approach to learn. That s why so many so-called accelerated learning systems or brain-friendly approaches have appeared. The main problem is that most of them have never been really tested. They have not had a follow up for decades to check if they would not harm the students. Suggestopedia is the ONLY method that had a scientific and medical background. Before publishing his results Dr. Lozanov accompanied his students for 10 years to be sure that nobody would have any negative by-product. On the contrary, his students became healthier and more intelligent. Prof. Paulo Negrete Academic Director Certified in Desuggestive Pedagogy

Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers

Author : Jean Wyatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581351
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers written by Jean Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.

Reading the Short Story

Author : Anna Wing-bo Tso
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673985
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Short Story written by Anna Wing-bo Tso and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.

That’s The Way It Crumbles

Author : Matthew Engel
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832629
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book That’s The Way It Crumbles written by Matthew Engel and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now. In That's The Way It Crumbles Matthew Engel presents a call to arms against the linguistic impoverishment that happens when one language dominates another. With dismay and wry amusement, he traces the American invasion of our language from the early days of the New World, via the influence of Edison, the dance hall and the talkies, right up to the Apple and Microsoft-dominated present day, and explores the fate of other languages trying to fend off linguistic takeover bids. It is not the Americans' fault, more the result of their talent for innovation and our own indifference. He explains how America's cultural supremacy affects British gestures, celebrations and way of life, and how every paragraph and conversation includes words the British no longer even think of as Americanisms. Part battle cry, part love song, part elegy, this book celebrates the strange, the banal, the precious and the endangered parts of our uncommon common language.

The Reader's Companion to American History

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547561342
Total Pages : 1253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Reader's Companion to American History written by Eric Foner and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 1253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries “all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining” (Library Journal). From the origins of its native peoples to its complex identity in modern times, this unique alphabetical reference covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of America. A fact-filled treasure trove for history buffs, The Reader’s Companion is sponsored by the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to promoting literary excellence in the writing of biography and history. Under the editorship of the eminent historians John A. Garraty and Eric Foner, a large and distinguished group of scholars, biographers, and journalists—nearly four hundred contemporary authorities—illuminate the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped our past. Readers will find everything from a chronological account of immigration; individual entries on the Bull Moose Party and the Know-Nothings as well as an article on third parties in American politics; pieces on specific religious groups, leaders, and movements and a larger-scale overview of religion in America. Interweaving traditional political and economic topics with the spectrum of America’s social and cultural legacies—everything from marriage to medicine, crime to baseball, fashion to literature—the Companion is certain to engage the curiosity, interests, and passions of every reader, and also provides an excellent research tool for students and teachers.

American English Compendium

Author : Marv Rubinstein
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589797264
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book American English Compendium written by Marv Rubinstein and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of American proverbs, expressions, slang, colloquialisms; British-US glossary; abbreviations and acronyms; and other various odds and ends. Widely used by non-native speakers and translators.