Bons Mots
How to Amaze Tout Le Monde with Everyday French
Published on 15. September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8050-5810-9 (ISBN)
Description
Les Bons Mots will help you add the piece de resistance to any conversation.
Les Bons Mots is an eminently browsable reference that is designed to help English speakers use those witty and wise sayings for which the French are so justly famous. Eugene Ehrlich has created a reference work that defines French phrases and aphorisms both literally and colloquially; employs a unique and foolproof guide to their pronunciation; adds a brief and often amusing explanation that fixes each phrase in the reader's mind; and indexes everything so extensively that each idea is easy to find. An entertaining read as well as an impeccable reference guide by one of America's most cherished wordsmiths.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8050-5810-9 (9780805058109)
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Person
Eugene Ehrlich is the author and editor of many reference books on language, including The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate, What's in a Name?, Les Bon Mots, You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu and the classic Amo, Amas, Amat, and More. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.