Meaning of Tingo
Subtitle: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780140515619
Subjects: Lexicology; Curiosities and wonders; Language and languages, etymology
Description: A garden of delights for the word obsessed, this book is a funny, amazing, and even profound world tour of the best of all those strange words that don't have a precise English equivalent, the ones that tell so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations.