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Students, teachers, travelers, and professionals can confidently rely on this invaluable 2-in-1 volume that includes:

- Hundreds of new words reflecting today's cultural, political, and technological changes, plus contemporary idioms and expressions
• Full pronunciation keys for both Russian and English entries
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This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. From "aggravatin' papa" to "yas-yas-yas" and everything in between, this truly unique, racy, and compelling resource decodes a neglected speech for general readers...

English is the language most frequently used in international military and peacekeeping operations. This dictionary contains over 6,000 entries providing up-to-date coverage of British, American and international military vocabulary, including training, personnel, logistics, manoeuvres, vehicles, tactics, commands, weapons and equipment.

Supplements include the phonetic alphabet, ranks, formal orders and military grouping symbols.

'An invaluable handbook' - Soldier Magazine of the British Army

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary...

Learning English as a Foreign Language For Dummies includes:

Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: You Already...

Bedeutungsworterbucher des Deutschen ordnen die einzelnen Worter traditionell alphabetisch an. Das erleichtert das Auffinden eines gesuchten Wortes, zerreit aber jeglichen Zusammenhang im Wortschatz. Eine mogliche inhaltlich motivierte Ordnung ist die nach Wortfamilien. Das vorliegende Wortfamilienworterbuch prasentiert den Wortschatz geordnet nach Wortfamilien. Von alteren Wortfamilienworterbuchern unterscheidet es sich dadurch, da es die Wortfamilien nicht historisch zusammenstellt, sondern nach der synchronen relativen Motiviertheit heutiger Sprecher. Im Gegensatz zu entsprechenden...

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

The dictionary is based on data from a 385 million word corpus - evenly balanced between spoken English (unscripted conversation from radio and TV shows); fiction (books, short stories, movie scripts); more than 100 popular magazines; ten newspapers; and 100 academic journals - for a total of nearly 150,000 texts.

All entries in the rank frequency list also...