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An Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language: To Which Are Added Walker's Key to Pronunciation of Classical and Scripture Proper ... Modern Geographical Names (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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IN the Introduction to this Dictionary, may be found remarks on ortho epy or pronunciation, orthography, etymology or the derivation of words, grammar, archaisms, provincialisms, Americanisms, and on various other points of philology and lexicography, and also explanations of the principles adopted in the preparation of the work. Prefatory observations are also pre fixed to the enlarged edition of Walker's Key, inserted in this volume, and likewise to the Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names. To these several introductory pages the reader is referred for various explanations and remarks, which it is unnecessary here to repeat.
In relation to etymology, or the derivation of English words, the general rule which has been followed is, to give the etymons of such words as are derived from languages foreign to the English, namely, the Greek, Latin, French. Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, The Anglo Saxon being the mother tongue of the English, and the greater part of the English words which are of most frequent occurrence being derived from that language, with more or less change of their orthography, the etymology of these words of anglo-saxon origin is, for the most part, omitted.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0282961194
- ISBN 13 9780282961190
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages1079
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