Here Speeching American: A Very Strange Guide to English As It Is Garbled Around the World
- ISBN-10
- 0812973151
- ISBN-13
- 9780812973150
- Category
- Humor
- Pages
- 223
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Authors
- Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Description
Takes a hilarious look at the challenges confronting English-speaking travelers around the world, from less-than-coherent road signs, to odd sounding food and drink, to impossible-to-follow directions, to other lighthearted examples of fractured English. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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