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Overview
British English A to Zed gives readers immediate access to an alphabetical listing of either the thousands of "Briticisms" cited in the general entries or the correlating "Americanisms" that appear throughout the book. This updated edition features more than 5,000 entries, including new words, both formal and slang, and words from sources as diverse as London businesses and Bridget Jones's Diary. This delightful book provides the most comprehensive reference to the vagaries of English as spoken on both sides of the Atlantic-it is rigorously researched, wickedly witty, and eminently useful.Synopsis
British English A to Zed gives readers immediate access to an alphabetical listing of either the thousands of "Briticisms" cited in the general entries or the correlating "Americanisms" that appear throughout the book. This updated edition features more than 5,000 entries, including new words, both formal and slang, and words from sources as diverse as London businesses and Bridget Jones's Diary. This delightful book provides the most comprehensive reference to the vagaries of English as spoken on both sides of the Atlantic-it is rigorously researched, wickedly witty, and eminently useful.
Booknews
American Anglophiles will find this compendium a "clinking" (damn good) guide to current and outmoded Briticisms. Parts of speech are identified; pronunciation guides use common words rather than phonetics. Includes appended material on general differences between British and American English; and terms relating to units of measure, motor-cars, slang, musical notation, food, botany/zoology, cricket, and place-names. The index lists US terms followed by British equivalents, but not page numbers. First published as (Verbatim, 1980). The revision is by Eugen Ehrlich, as Schur is deceased. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)