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One World Press [Published date: 2008]. Paperback, 102 pp. Third Edition. In very good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A copious compendium of Homonyms, Homographs, synonyms and similes of the English Language as applied to both sides of the Great Pond. [From Foreword] FINALLY—something long overdue that both our nations have been sorely in need of: a glossary of terms, definitions and expressions commonly used in the US and UK, both formal and colloquial that, more often than not, have left our peoples confused—to say the very least—if not outright exasperated in travel and daily conversation. This book is written for the unfortunate Briton who unexpectedly precipitated his own bloody nose (forgive us—nosebleed) simply by having paid his American host's wife the compliment of being homely; and to the poor American, who was jolted into a state of catatonia, reminiscent of the countenance of a moribund moray eel, when having been genially offered a serving of spotted dick? Therefore, and in keeping with the kindred spirit of the late G.B. Shaw, we have endeavoured to demonstrate his premise by simply sorting out the morass of sometimes confusing (sometimes amusing) terms that both our peoples' sometimes.