What they didn't say a book of misquotations

An entertaining and thought-provoking book for language buffs and anyone interested in quotations, What They Didn't Say sifts through more than one hundred and fifty misquotations, incorrect attributions, and apocryphal remarks to reveal the origins of the quotes. Organized in an accessible A-Z...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Knowles, Elizabeth
Awduron Eraill: Elizabeth Knowles
Iaith:Undetermined
English
Cyhoeddwyd: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2006
Pynciau:
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Crynodeb:An entertaining and thought-provoking book for language buffs and anyone interested in quotations, What They Didn't Say sifts through more than one hundred and fifty misquotations, incorrect attributions, and apocryphal remarks to reveal the origins of the quotes. Organized in an accessible A-Z format, quotes range from "Actors are cattle" (Alfred Hitchcock) to "You dirty rat!" (James Cagney) and span from the classical world right up to the present day
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:xxi, 153 p.
21 cm
ISBN:199203598