How to Sound Clever explains the etymology of 600 key words you really ought to know, but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as
How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can mystify and outfox us, such as 'condign', 'Zelig-like' and 'agitprop'. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Cle
Covering such inscrutable characters as Martin Heidegger, Michel de Montaigne, Karl Popper, and Claude Levi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), writer Hubert van den Bergh—author of the
How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can outfox us, such as 'condign', 'Zelig-like' and 'agitprop'. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Clever (2010) w
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