The U.K. to U.S.A. Dictionary is a pocket-size handbook of British English vs. American English. It covers the "A to Zed" of terms and expressions that differ in the United Kingdom or British-influenced countries from the English spoken in America, such as "loo" for bathroom, "bonnet" for car hood, "boot" for trunk, "petrol" for gas and "lift" for elevator. Great for travelers, Anglophiles, and expatriates on both sides "of the pond."
"Bob's Your Uncle" means all is well! "Take a shufti" through this great little dictionary to see if you can "sus out" the meaning of the English expressions vs. the American ones!
Over 20,000 copies have been sold - mainly through British specialty shops (check out our links to some of these companies).
Solitaire Publishing will be releasing some new products soon, so stay tuned to this site.
Claudine Dervaes, President and owner of Solitaire has over 30 years' experience encompassing travel agency and tour company operations, teaching Travel and Tourism, and writing, designing and publishing The Travel Training Series of manuals, The Travel Dictionary, Teaching Travel: A handbook for the Educator and more. Solitaire Publishing for 17 years distributed over 40 products for travel education. In 2001 Delmar Thomson Learning took over distribution of most of the materials (www.delmar.com).
