... 18) Cassette 3.2Td&D .41 Cassette 3.2LIVING LANGUAGE đA Random House Company American EnglishPronunciation ProgramWritten by BarbaraRaifsniderEdited by ChristopherA.Wamasch Ttraffic ... 74HAVAN’T 74HAS/HE 74HIS 74HASN’T HE 74HAS HIM 74HERS 74HASN’T&HER 74HE’S 74Rapid English Hints and Phrases 74S, Z,T,D before “Y” 74S+Y=[SH] [Ш] 74Z+Н=[ZH] [ЖЬ] [ЖЬЁ] 75T+Y=[CH] ... 66Practice Y— link 66Конец — Начало. The end + the beginning 66Drop “T” and “D” 67 SECTION 4 Reduced English 67PART I Reductions 68The second category of vowel reductions 69IS and AS sound the same...
... containing all the essentialssuccinctly. 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 inThe Oxford EnglishDictionary was byJohn Locke, 1690. The dictionary saysthat billion, trillion, and quadrillionwere 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...
... sometimes because pronunciations differ. It ishiãerãoãglyphãic in one dictionary, hiãeroãglyphãic in another; telãeãphonein the rst dictionary, teleãphone in theother. One dictionary makes ... words, fore or front, thoughforward lacks an e. This word descendedfrom the Old English foreweard.“FOR FREE. ” See FREE, 1.FORMER. Former (pronoun) is theopposite of latter. The former refers ... independence anddemocracy and paid with their bloodto learn that freedom is not in a dicta-tor’s dictionary. The part of the sentence about free- dom” does not follow reasonably fromthe part about...
... Page 213 Latin American, with no hyphen. Usedas an adjective, as in Latin -American country, the term takes a hyphen.2. LATINO, HISPANIC, SPANISH,MEXICAN, and CHICANOLatin(- )American used to ... -ISEIn Britain the American -ize, the origi-nal British spelling, usually is spelled -ise(after the modern French practice ofchanging 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 19702-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30...
... sayovercautious and reject “overly cau-tious.”The Random House Dictionary listsabout 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-words, many of which it prefers ... perfectlyproper, but it has been one of the mean-ings of over since the Middle Ages. TheOxford EnglishDictionary offers eightquotations, from the fourteenth centuryon, to illustrate that over ... stresses way orgives the two words about equal stress.These are correct examples from TheOxford English Dictionary: “They weretied up and could noways appear”(1702). “I have lived a virgin and Inoway...
... re-ferred, twice, to “the Christian Demo-cratic -Free Democratic” coalitionrunning West Berlin. The writer did notintend to suggest that the coalition was free of democracy, but the hyphentended to ... we.” See 10D.)Further examples are taken from abook about English words, a state’s taxform, 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 begrammatically independent of any par-enthetical matter. A general dictionary erred...
... (mainlynon-Indians—many American Indiangroups call themselves that), who foster“Native American as a synonym. Usersof that term exclude most native-bornAmericans and several indigenous peo-ples under the American ... eighties African -American caught on as a formal term. It has lessutility, covering only Americans; itwould not include, say, a black Con-golese. Nor would it include a natural-ized American who ... general dictionary, under pastparticiple, we find the sentence below, inwhich a series of nouns shifts to a prepo-sitional phrase. The meaning is clear, butthe lapse stands out in a dictionary...
... toward warmthmay go on or it may not.”An American general exhibited tauto-logical mastery. As secretary of state, headdressed the Organization of American States and imparted this intelligenceabout ... word orphrase: “. . . a country that never beforehad a totally free election” or “. . . acountry that never had a totally free elec-tion until yesterday.”A television reporter’s sloppy use ... surprising in acountry that has never had a totally free election.“. . . Has never had” indicates that thecountry never had a totally free electionup to the time that the sentence waswritten....
... Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary, Julie E. Towell and HelenE. Sheppard, Detroit: Gale ResearchCo., 1988.The American Heritage Dictionary ofthe 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, copyright1931–1935 (1978 printing). Dictionary of American UnderworldLingo, Hyman E. Goldin, New York:Twayne Publishers, 1950.A Dictionary...
... independence anddemocracy and paid with their bloodto learn that freedom is not in a dicta-tor’s dictionary. The part of the sentence about free- dom” does not follow reasonably fromthe part about ... system of govern-ment by elected representatives of thepeople.Freedom means the state of being free from restraints or being free from officialoppression or being able to do what onewants.Independence ... TheOxford EnglishDictionary as “Thequality 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, ...
... pronunciation in the dictionary 14 Americanpronunciation 2.3 American pronunciation. The AmE pronunciations shown in LPD are those appropriate to the variety (accent) known as General American. ... (or AmE) English with regional accent For those interested in studying some of the differences between American and British English pronunciation, there is a section on Americanpronunciation ... aiso highlighted in blue. If no separate Americanpronunciation is given, this means that the word has the same pronunciation in British and American English. match mæʧ dot, Dot dɒt ‖ dɑːt...