The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 is a continuation of book 1, offering more slang & idioms, dialogues, puzzles, true-or-false exercises, word games, and hundreds of illustrations which will teach you how Americans really speak "in no time flat" — that means "very quickly" in slang! In addition, this volume introduces The Slangman Files which presents everyday slang terms and expressions in categories such as: Fruits & Vegetables, Food, Clothing, Body Parts, Proper Names, Initials, Fish, Insects, Animals, Numbers, and Colors all used in popular slang expressions.
I wrote this model as a teaching device during the time I was working in Bangkok, Thailand, as a legal editor and language consultant, with one of the Big Four Legal and Tax companies, KPMG (during my afternoon job) after teaching at the university. (by David Holmes)
"Violence Expressed" explores the diverse expressions and manifestations through which the meaning of violent experiences and events is (re)produced. As language alone does not always suffice for the description of violence, this book focuses not only on the verbal and discursive expressions of violence, but also on the performative acts, material culture and the spaces that constitute these expressions.
2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions
This enormous collection of almost one thousand pages contains the four previously published bestselling titles, A Hog on Ice, Thereby Hangs, A Tale, Heavens to Betsy! and Horsefeathers. How did the expression "a wild goose chase" originate? Why does the word "dunce" come from the great philosopher, Duns Scotus? Dr. Funk has taken these and over 2000 other curious words, expressions and sayings that we use in our daily speech and traced them back through the years to find their amusing, practical and surprising origins. These sayings are derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor and the frailties of mankind.
Hot English Magazine, June 2011 • Learn 500 new useful expressions in this month’s magazine. • Increase your range of vocabulary with the stars as you listen to interviews with Justin Bieber and Jake Gyllenhaal. • Find out about Johnny Depp and his latest film… and learn lots of useful words and expressions to talk about his life. • Improve your writing skills with our “How to write in English” article.
