The Meaning of Tingo PDF book is popular Foreign Language Study book written by Adam Jacot de Boinod. The book was released by Penguin on 2007-02-27 with total hardcover pages 228. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Meaning of Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinod in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
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A garden of delights for the word obsessed, this book is a clever world tour of the best of all those strange words that don't have a precise English equivalent
A whimsical linguistic tour of foreign words and phrases that do not have precise English-language equivalents includes such entries as the world's longest-know
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