Dangerous English 2000: An Indispensable Guide for Language Learners and Others

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Summary: What Other Dictionaries Don't Tell You
Review: Elizabeth Claire brings her long experience in the classroom to this undertaking - a dictionary of the taboo words in English. The illustrations are graphic, the definitions clear and concise. Not intended to titillate but inform, the slim volume includes includes, for example, lists of words with double meanings and words which learners of English often mispronounce with embarrassing results, plus a glossary of the vocabulary encountered in the doctor's office, plus definitions which include the slang term, the child's term, the vulgar term, the euphemism, for various sexual and bathroom words. Our adult students, new to life in the US, tell us this book is extremely helpful. This book answers questions parents have when their kids come home from school with new and unfamiliar terms in English. Not intended as a textbook but as a reference.