This is a garden of delights for the word-obsessed: 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 us so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations and expand our minds.
I browsed through this intriguing little book while eating a bikini for lunch (which, as we all know, is Spanish for a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich ☺ )
Oh, and tingo is a Pascuense word from Easter Island meaning 'to borrow things from a friend's house one by one until there's nothing left'.
I once had a neighbour like that!
