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American - English Pronunciation

American - English Pronunciation

Ngày tải lên : 06/07/2013, 01:25
... 18) Cassette 3.2 T d &D .41 Cassette 3.2 LIVING LANGUAGE đ A Random House Company American English Pronunciation Program Written by Barbara Raifsnider Edited by Christopher A.Wamasch T traffic ... 74 HAVAN’T 74 HAS/HE 74 HIS 74 HASN’T HE 74 HAS HIM 74 HERS 74 HASN’T&HER 74 HE’S 74 Rapid English Hints and Phrases 74 S, Z,T,D before “Y” 74 S+Y=[SH] [Ш] 74 Z+Н=[ZH] [ЖЬ] [ЖЬЁ] 75 T+Y=[CH] ... 66 Practice Y— link 66 Конец — Начало. The end + the beginning 66 Drop “T” and “D” 67 SECTION 4 Reduced English 67 PART I Reductions 68 The second category of vowel reductions 69 IS and AS sound the same...
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ENGLISH-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW pptx

ENGLISH-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW pptx

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 02:20
... and E. Teplitsky. Concise English- Russian and English- Russian English- Russian Medical Dictionary. Moscow: Russky Yazyk Publishers, 1989. Gifis, Steven H. Law Dictionary. 3rd ed. Hauppauge, ... English- Russian Comprehensive Law Dictionary. 1st ed. Moscow: Sovetnik, 1993. Muller, V. K. English- Russian Dictionary. Moscow: Russky Yazyk, 1985. New English- Russian Dictionary. 4th ed. Moscow: ... Russky Yazyk, 1993. Americana. English- Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary. Smolensk: Polygramma, 1996. Andrianov, S., A. Berson, and A. Nikiforov. English- Russian Law Dictionary. Moscow:...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... containing all the essentials succinctly. Noah Webster’s first general dictionary, 1806, was titled A Compen- dious Dictionary of the English Lan- guage. He meant that it was concise. When a lexicographer ... any measurable ex- tent. The earliest use of billion quoted in The Oxford English Dictionary was by John Locke, 1690. The dictionary says that billion, trillion, and quadrillion were purposely formed ... hundred bil- lion years or so.” The book was pub- lished in the United States by an American publisher for American read- ers, but the author is British and his dis- cussion of the future of...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... sometimes because pronunciations differ. It is hiãerãoãglyphãic in one dictionary, hiãeroãglyphãic in another; telãeãphone in the rst dictionary, teleãphone in the other. One dictionary makes ... words, fore or front, though forward lacks an e. This word descended from the Old English foreweard. “FOR FREE. ” See FREE, 1. FORMER. Former (pronoun) is the opposite of latter. The former refers ... independence and democracy and paid with their blood to learn that freedom is not in a dicta- tor’s dictionary. The part of the sentence about free- dom” does not follow reasonably from the part about...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... Page 213 Latin American, with no hyphen. Used as an adjective, as in Latin -American country, the term takes a hyphen. 2. LATINO, HISPANIC, SPANISH, MEXICAN, and CHICANO Latin(- )American used to ... -ISE In Britain the American -ize, the origi- nal British spelling, usually is spelled -ise (after the modern French practice of changing the Greek -izo to -iser). For in- stance, the American realize ... Greek -izo to -iser). For in- stance, the American realize is spelled re- alise. The Oxford English Dictionary finds no good reason for -ise, “in opposi- -ize ending 197 02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... say overcautious and reject “overly cau- tious.” The Random House Dictionary lists about 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over- words, many of which it prefers ... perfectly proper, but it has been one of the mean- ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eight quotations, from the fourteenth century on, to illustrate that over ... stresses way or gives the two words about equal stress. These are correct examples from The Oxford English Dictionary: “They were tied up and could noways appear” (1702). “I have lived a virgin and I noway...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... re- ferred, twice, to “the Christian Demo- cratic -Free Democratic” coalition running West Berlin. The writer did not intend to suggest that the coalition was free of democracy, but the hyphen tended to ... we.” See 10D.) Further examples are taken from a book about English words, a state’s tax form, and two news articles: For the dedicated dictionary browser a new edition is a great joy, but sometimes ... correc- tion for American readers or was Ameri- can and just did not know any better. The main part of a sentence must be grammatically independent of any par- enthetical matter. A general dictionary erred...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... (mainly non-Indians—many American Indian groups call themselves that), who foster “Native American as a synonym. Users of that term exclude most native-born Americans and several indigenous peo- ples under the American ... eighties African -American caught on as a formal term. It has less utility, covering only Americans; it would not include, say, a black Con- golese. Nor would it include a natural- ized American who ... general dictionary, under past participle, we find the sentence below, in which a series of nouns shifts to a prepo- sitional phrase. The meaning is clear, but the lapse stands out in a dictionary...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... toward warmth may go on or it may not.” An American general exhibited tauto- logical mastery. As secretary of state, he addressed the Organization of American States and imparted this intelligence about ... word or phrase: “. . . a country that never before had a totally free election” or “. . . a country that never had a totally free elec- tion until yesterday.” A television reporter’s sloppy use ... surprising in a country that has never had a totally free election. “. . . Has never had” indicates that the country never had a totally free election up to the time that the sentence was written....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:21
... Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary, Julie E. Towell and Helen E. Sheppard, Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1988. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1st ed., William ... 1972. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1971. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur- rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, Ox- ford, ... the English Language, 2 vol., Essex, Conn.: Verbatim, copyright 1931–1935 (1978 printing). Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, Hyman E. Goldin, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1950. A Dictionary...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... independence and democracy and paid with their blood to learn that freedom is not in a dicta- tor’s dictionary. The part of the sentence about free- dom” does not follow reasonably from the part about ... system of govern- ment by elected representatives of the people. Freedom means the state of being free from restraints or being free from official oppression or being able to do what one wants. Independence ... The Oxford English Dictionary as “The quality or condition of being a fact; fac- tuality.” It dates at least from 1945. So the speaker used a word recog- nized by the most reputable dictionary, ...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... name for the questionable form (with his brother in The King’s English, 1906) and publicize it (in his famous Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926). The four examples below come from a book ... also a revealing in- dicator of change. It [an anti -American poster in Mos- cow] has been replaced by a new poster with drawings of a young American boy and a young Soviet girl in an idyllic, ... like saying Macduff of Macduff. In the United States and England too, ilk is used loosely—The Oxford English Dictionary says “erroneously”—as a noun meaning class, kind, or family. It is usually meant...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... Page 230 Latin American, with no hyphen. Used as an adjective, as in Latin -American country, the term takes a hyphen. 2. LATINO, HISPANIC, SPANISH, MEXICAN, and CHICANO Latin(- )American used to ... Greek -izo to -iser). For in- stance, the American realize is spelled re- alise. The Oxford English Dictionary finds no good reason for -ise, “in opposi- -ize ending 197 02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30 ... -ISE In Britain the American -ize, the origi- nal British spelling, usually is spelled -ise (after the modern French practice of changing the Greek -izo to -iser). For in- stance, the American realize...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 ppsx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... anyone illiterate in English. What if you can’t read the signs on the freeway and “don’t know what exit to get off of?” In his comment, he displayed less than full proficiency in English himself. The ... say overcautious and reject “overly cau- tious.” The Random House Dictionary lists about 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over- words, many of which it prefers ... perfectly proper, but it has been one of the mean- ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eight quotations, from the fourteenth century on, to illustrate that over...
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American English vs British English

American English vs British English

Ngày tải lên : 05/07/2013, 01:26
... (thuốc ) “) của Anh. Người Anh dường như không sử dụng chữ administrate. Theo từ điển Oxford English Dictionary ( viết tắt : O.E.D ), chữ administrate là phó từ của administer. Administer thường ... cơ cấu gọi là carpet-bagger government (chính quyền của bọn đầu cơ chính trị) The Oxford English Dictionary dẫn chứng, thời gian từ này bắt đầu được sử dụng ở Mỹ sớm hơn ở Anh CARRY Bỏ hàng ... của Mỹ tương đương với chữ subject (thần dân, công dân của Anh).Chúng ta thường thấy trên báo chí American citizen và British subject. Ngoài ra, chữ citizen ở Mỹ còn có ý nghĩa là resident, inhabitant...
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