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Sep 27, 2006 7 min

The World's Amazing Languages!

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Foreign languages are a wonderful source of weird and wonderful explanations – some words are familiar sounding, others are just plain bizarre. We hear from the authoru of a book that comes highly recommended by the comedian and fellow author Stephen Fry. In The Meaning of Tingo – and other extraordinary words, author Adam Jacot de Bonod has trawled through the world’s dictionaries to uncover words that are quirky, amusing or just downright befuddling!

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