Language Dictionaries with an Emphasis on Military Dictionaries

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US Army Military History Research Collection, 1971 - 83 Seiten

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Seite 3 - WILLIAMS.— A SYLLABIC DICTIONARY OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE; arranged according to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the pronunciation of the Characters as heard in Pekin, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai.
Seite 1 - An English-Arabic Lexicon. In which the equivalent for English Words and Idiomatic Sentences are rendered into literary and colloquial Arabic.
Seite 13 - It is based upon the application of the historical method to the life and use of words, and its purpose is to show the history of every word included from the date of its introduction into the language, giving differences in meaning, spelling, pronunciation, usage, etc., at different periods of the last 800 years...
Seite 13 - ... writers since then. The vocabulary is very full, and is intended to include all words now in use or known to have been in use since 1 1 50, excluding only words which had become obsolete by 1 1 50.
Seite 1 - An English-Arabic Vocabulary of the Modern and Colloquial Arabic of Egypt. (3d ed.) Cairo: Elias Modern Press, 1929.
Seite 2 - MRAS Egyptian, Syrian, and North-African Handbook. A Simple Phrase-Book in English and Arabic for the use of the British Forces, Civilians, and Residents in Egypt. Fcap. 4s.
Seite 29 - Gustav. Flugel-Schmidt-Tanger: a dictionary of the English and German languages for home and school.
Seite 13 - English colonists but, instead, to show "those features by which the English of the American colonies and the United States is distinguished from that of England and the rest of the English-speaking world...
Seite iii - Nevertheless, we must insist that a command of the language is an indispensable means of obtaining accurate and thorough knowledge, because much information can be gained by listening to conversations of the natives and by taking part in their daily life, which, to the observer who has no command of the language, will remain entirely inaccessible.
Seite 37 - Rapid-fire English : French : German, with pronunciation, for the use of soldiers and sailors and the men and women of the army and navy medical corps ; сотр. by a committee of well-known teachers from actual experience of soldiers' needs, including 330 words and terms of trench slang.