Description: If foreign words and phrases are your bete noire, here is a superb reference that offers coverage of over 8,000 foreign words and phrases that are in regular use in English today. From a cappella to yakuza, readers will find clear definitions of words found in everyday speech as well as in musical direction, the arts, food, medicine, science, literature, and belles-lettres; and draws words from a wide array of languages including Afrikaans, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindustani, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, and Turkish. The entries are browsable but authoritative, providing any alternative spellings, the date of the word's introduction into English, its language of origin and original spelling, its definition, quotations to illustrate context, and notes on usage and other points of interest.

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