British English from A to Zed: A Definitive Guide to the Queen's English Paperback – July 1, 2013

I bought this book as a gift for my parents! They love to watch British shows and often wondered about some of the words and phrases used, so I thought this would help! They love to pull it out and use it while watching their favorite shows. Definitely recommend!

This is a great book if you are writing a British character like I am and you want kinda a dictionary of what British word means in English. There some words in English that aren't really used or at least where I am from. It a huge help with British terms. I love it.

Good diccionary of British English words and expresssions. HOWEVER, this was NOT what I wanted or even expected. I want a British English words book that can be compare to American English words as different they are, but with the same meaning.

Perhaps that is an unfair rating to give it three stars and not 5. There's nothing wrong with the book; we have the Kindle edition. However, I thought it was more of a dictionary and it is more of an explanation about the differences in our languages. Well there are some words listed that are different from what we commonly use and American English I was hoping to get a book that was filled with British terms like our Webster dictionary. I play a game called Word Chums which is an app and is like the game Scrabble. However they use British terms and I was looking to expand my vocabulary. So the book is not a disappointment on what it is it's just not what I wanted it to be. By the way I highly recommend the app Word Chums!

Great as a Brit to give to a American friend who’s always asking about British vocabulary.

As I watch a lot of British mysteries, every night. Some of the shows have a number of words & phases that I’m not familiar with so I needed a British dictionary. This works perfectly.

I love my British movies, mysteries, telly. This is a handy little reference book for those British terms that you're not sure about the meaning. I have the Kindle edition and I use it all the time. It's fun to just browse through it too.

An amazing book! I think it would be quite useful for someone who is going to live, even work, in England. This is a thorough and well written and well thought-out dictionary. The words and phrases it (the book) chooses to include are ones that might very much confuse an American, because though we speak the same language, I can see it would be easy to make very erroneous assumptions about what a Britisher is referring to! I assume that many of the definitions I read about will be helpful, even essential, to know when visiting London. The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is that it's more than I will need to know, as only a short-time visitor. I probably should have given it five stars anyway because it does, after all, say "Definitive" in the subtitle!