![]() ![]() ![]() This book will be most useful to students of the language and to general readers who want more detail than can be gleaned from the average dictionary. This makes Chambers’ works non-uniform, as the Chambers Dictionary has its own (rather different) scheme, and the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary uses IPA. ![]() Since this edition is the same as the original American one, these pronunciations are for American rather than British English and they use a key developed from normal English spelling, avoiding the typographic conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that many people find difficult to use. Entries are in clear prose, with Greek terms transliterated into Roman spelling, and pronunciations added for difficult headwords. The Chambers Dictionary of Etymology is different on both counts - it is reasonably priced, and it is written in a way that is easy to consult without losing its scholarly integrity. There are other, more formal, dictionaries of etymology available for example in Europe Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, but they are frequently difficult for the non-linguist to understand, and they are uniformly expensive. (The best and most scholarly is probably John Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins, but I would also mention The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, which has longish articles on a small range of key words.) There are quite a number of books dealing with the origins of individual words, but most are highly selective in their choice of terms and they are variably reliable. Chambers have added the book to their stable of works on the language that includes the idiosyncratic and famous Chambers Dictionary and the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, a new edition of which has also just come out. ![]() It has the same text as the original from the H W Wilson Company and indeed, to judge from the printing, seems to be a facsimile. OL18413223W Page_number_confidence 95.13 Pages 1050 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211122181946 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 482 Scandate 20211121132815 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0198611129 Tts_version 4.This work is really going around under an alias, as it’s a British edition of the 1988 Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, a respected work from the US which until now has been available in the UK only by a pricey purchase from a transatlantic bookseller. Urn:lcp:oxforddictionary0000unse_w8t3:epub:19988cc4-6464-4166-8bac-0ff33d282e2c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier oxforddictionary0000unse_w8t3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s28f2vq8shm Invoice 1652 Isbn 0198611129 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc2-1-gf788 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000200 Openlibrary_edition W Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40295908 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier (Charles Talbut), 1873-1965 Friedrichsen, George Washington Salisbury Burchfield, R. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:16:51 Associated-names Onions, C. ![]()
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