How to Sound Clever

ISBN: 9781408194560 出版年：2010 页码：225 Hubert van den Bergh Bloomsbury Publishing

How to Sound Clever explains the etymology of 600 key words you really ought to know, but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as useful example phrases so that readers can quickly see the correct context for each word. Anecdotes and witty illustrations appear throughout that is entertaining and will help the reader to boost their vocabulary. An ideal gift and a useful book for everyone have to hand when tha word you should know, but don't.Colin Dexter has described How to Sound Clever thus: 'This admirable bowelcome antidote to the semi-demi-literacy of the 21st century. Go out and buy it!'