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English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive… by José da Fonseca

Some lists from the first pages:

For the table.

Some knives
Some groceries
Some crumb.

Kitchen utensils.

The skimming-dish
The potlid
The pothanger
The spunge
The spark
The fire
The smoke
The clout
The jack

Parties a Town.

The butchery
The cause-way
The sink
The low eating house
The obelis-ks
The prison, geol

& later on:

For to swim.

I row upon the belly on the back and between two waters.

...there's also a very nice list of Idiotisms and Proverbs at the end...

… (more)

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melanierisch | 11 other reviews | Oct 25, 2020 |

English As She Is Spoke; Or, a Jest in Sober Earnest by José da Fonseca

Left-handed hedgehog
spies an ugly morpion
playing with some knifes.

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Eggpants | 11 other reviews | Jun 25, 2020 |

English as she is spoke by Jose da] [Fonseca

An amusing collection of material.

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Frenzie | 11 other reviews | Nov 24, 2018 |

English As She Is Spoke: Or, a Jest in Sober Earnest by José Da Fonseca

This entertaining historical artefact neatly illustrates that comic Babelfish translations are not a recent phenomenon. Language - it's there to trip you up.

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imyril | 11 other reviews | May 27, 2014 |

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