I Never Knew There Was a Word For ItFrom 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book! |
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Afrikaans Albanian Ancient Greek animal Arabic Australia Australian slang birds blue Botswana camel Caribbean Spanish child Chile Chilean Spanish Chinese clothes colour Cook Islands Maori Czech Dakota Danish describe drink drunk Dutch Easter Island eyes False friends feeling finger Finnish fish Gaelic German Gilbertese hair hands Hawaiian Hindi horse Hungarian husband IDIOMS India Indonesian Inuit Italian Jamaican English Japanese jargon Korean language late 19C Latin American Spanish legs literally look Madagascar Maguindanaon Malagasy Malay Mambwe Manobo means mouth Nigeria night Norwegian nose Oceania one's Papua New Guinea Persian person Philippines Portuguese rain Rapa Nui Russian Sanskrit Scotland Setswana Shropshire Sinhala sleep someone someone's sound South Africa Sri Lanka Swahili Swedish Tagalog talk Tamil teeth things Tsonga Tudor-Stuart Tulu Turkish UK slang underworld slang Vietnamese walk wife woman women WORD JOURNEYS Yamana Yiddish Yorkshire Zambia