https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_considered_the_worst
(see also https://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1279243535/374,553)

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>Portuguese–English phrasebook written by a man who could not speak English, instead relying on a Portuguese–French phrasebook and the French–English dictionary.

Holy shit they were doing it even in the 1800s