Righting English that's gone DutchKemper Conseil Publishing, 2004 - 166 pages Handleiding voor het vermijden van 'Dunglish', de mengtaal die ontstaat als Nederlanders het Engels gebruiken volgens de regels van het Nederlands. |
Contents
Preface to the second edition | |
Same difference 23 | |
Sixes and nines at sixes and sevens 41 | |
Short schrift 55 | |
The splitting headache 71 | |
Aha 85 | |
Theres no time like the present 89 | |
On first name terms 105 | |
About orderingOrdering about 123 | |
At odds at the end 143 | |
Common terms and phrases
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