Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (Facts on File Writer's Library)
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ISBN: 0816044597 / Publisher: Checkmark Books, March 2002
Provides pronunciations, origins, and meanings for words and phrases from foreign sources, ranging from such everyday terms as "dollar," to words in the news and the specialized languages of cooking, music, the arts, and the law.
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The American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson described the English language as "the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven." With more than 4,000 entries, this dictionary explains the meanings and origins of terms that have entered the English lexicon from foreign tongues.
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