The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (Writers Reference)

SECOND EDITION

SECOND EDITION

MARTIN H. MANSER

Associate Editors: David H. Pickering
Alice Grandison

Preface to the New Edition

Introduction

Foreign Words and Phrases

Index

The text of this second dictionary has been expanded to take into account the ongoing process of globalization. Over 500 entries have been added, including expressions that have become more frequently used in contemporary English, such as
retro and sudoku; more prefixes and suffixes, especially those that are currently very
productive, such as eco- and fest; terms relating to food, such as conchiglie, panini,
and stollen; and terms relating to religions, such as Eid, Parousia, and Veda.

The opportunity has been also taken to delete certain entries that have become
firmly and fully assimilated into English and to amend the very occasional error in
the original edition.

Acknowledgments

I wish to record my thanks to my daughter Hannah for her help in compiling the
index, and to David Pickering and Alice Grandison for their excellent editorial
work on the first and second editions respectively.

Martin H. Manser

The American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson described the English language as "the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven." This
dictionary has been compiled as an accessible guide to expressions that are derived
from foreign languages. Some such words and phrases have been fully assimilated
into the language (igloo, bonanza); others are still thought of as foreign (de rigueur,
magnum opus).