"I admit that the ass of Balaam did spoken, but he not did kicks"
[English as She Is Spoke] The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts
First US edition. Fonseca and Carolino’s inadvertent masterpiece has been called many things... "Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written" ... A book of "miraculous stupidities." "The most ludicrous foreign attempt ever made to teach our language." Most often under the title English as She Is Spoke...the mid-nineteenth-century Portuguese phrasebook.....
Price: $500