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nadiitaa's review
5.0
This book is a really nice guide to learn basic pronunciation, spelling and manners that are used by British native speakers. It explains the differences between American and British English and is useful if one wants to speak English in a more British native speaker way rather than a more 'universal' English.
My rating goes more to evaluating the book as a guide and not as how much I enjoyed it. There were sections (as the spelling one) that I found kind of 'boring' if one is just reading this guide to learn how to speak properly the British English rather than to write it, or if you are interested in both but you don't really take the time to put into practice this spelling rules, as I wasn't, as my reading was more in a speaking way.
Overall, I think it is really well written and it covers a wide range of important things in the English language.
My rating goes more to evaluating the book as a guide and not as how much I enjoyed it. There were sections (as the spelling one) that I found kind of 'boring' if one is just reading this guide to learn how to speak properly the British English rather than to write it, or if you are interested in both but you don't really take the time to put into practice this spelling rules, as I wasn't, as my reading was more in a speaking way.
Overall, I think it is really well written and it covers a wide range of important things in the English language.
averij's review against another edition
3.0
"As an 1890s edition of 'Good Housekeeping' wisely pointed out, 'Nothing is so vexatious as for a guest to find, preparing to retire, that the bed is lightly clothed...Most guests are reluctant to ask for more bedding, especially when left alone, with the probability that all others in the house may have gone to bed; so they either lie and shiver through a considerable portion of a night, or are driven to other expedients for obtaining the essential degree of warmth.' Her Ladyship glosses lightly over the question of what those 'other expedients' might be, but feels that the point is nonetheless an important one."
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