TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fonseca,José da
AU  - Carolino,Pedro
TI  - English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest
AV  - PN 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Errors and blunders, Literary
KW  - English language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Portuguese
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke; Release date is 2009-11-07; Produced by Doran Gaston; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest" by Fonseca and Carolino is a Portuguese-English phrase book published in 1855. Intended as a practical conversational guide, it became instead a legendary monument to hilariously mistaken translation. The author appears to have used a French-English dictionary to translate a Portuguese-French phrase book, producing absurd results like "raining in jars" and "to craunch a marmoset." Mark Twain declared it perfect in its unintentional comedy, noting that "nobody can add to the absurdity of this book." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30411
ER  -