How to Sound Clever

Master the 600 English Words You Pretend to Understand...When You Don't

Hubert Van Den Bergh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2010
A & C Black Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4081-2509-0 (ISBN)

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Bamboozled by braggadocio? Dumbfounded by 'Delphic'? This book explains the etymology of 800 key words you really need to know to stand out from the crowd and boost your vocabulary.

How to Sound Clever explains the etymology of 600 key words you really ought to know, but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as useful example phrases so that readers can quickly see the correct context for each word. Anecdotes and witty illustrations appear throughout to make a book that is entertaining and will help the reader to boost their vocabulary. An ideal gift and a useful book for everyone have to hand when they come across a word you should know, but don't. Colin Dexter has described How to Sound Clever thus: 'This admirable book is a wholly welcome antidote to the semi-demi-literacy of the 21st century. Go out and buy it!'

Hubert van den Bergh has worked in the City for the past decade. A language enthusiast, he was awarded an academic scholarship from Oxford University, where he studied Modern Languages.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.2010
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	1-4081-2509-9 / 1408125099
ISBN-13	978-1-4081-2509-0 / 9781408125090
Zustand	Neuware