Did you know that in Hungary, pigs go rof-rof-rof, but in Japan they go boo boo boo? That there’s apparently the need in Bolivia for a word that means "I was

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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

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Bestselling humorist Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations. In "X-Treme Latin" he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebo