Cassells French And English Dictionary

Download or read book Cassell's French and English Dictionary written by and published by Cassell's. This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty thousand entries provide French and English equivalents, and include technical, as well as, conversational words and phrases.

Download or read book Cassell's French Dictionary written by J H Douglas and published by Cassell's. This book was released on 1977-10 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This French dictionary provides the spelling, pronunciation, and translation of the most common French and English words.

Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Download or read book Cassell's German et English Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cassell's English Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Witchcraft written by David Pickering and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separating truth from myth, an expert offers an A to Z guide to one of the most intriguing aspects of the super-natural. Hundreds of carefully researched articles provide explanations of the key concepts of witchcraft, from demons and exorcisms to sabbats and spells, as well as fascinating biographies of key figures. Articles on witch trials through the centuries draw on records of torture, confessions, and recantations.

Download or read book The Disappearing Dictionary written by David Crystal and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, The Disappearing Dictionary unearths some lovely old gems of the English language, dusts them down and makes them live again for a new generation. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?' fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'.