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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5129 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 1 of 5 20 June 2011 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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So, I'm spending this summer (one of many) going through a lot of stuff that's been in storage for a long time, and all this stuff has been accumulated from various generations of my family.
I recently came across an old French/English dictionary titled "Handy English French and French English Dictionary" by Wessely. There is no published or copyright date on it, but I know from writing on the inside cover that it was used for a high school French class in 1929. Nearest I can find online is that it was published "sometime in the late 1800s". Is anybody familiar with this dictionary? It's fairly compact at 232 pages and is almost pocket-sized, considering it's hard-covered. Any info in greatly appreciated. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 20 June 2011 at 9:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Looking at the dates for similar books by the same author, I'd guess the dictionary was first published towards the end of the 19th century (see Handy dictionary of the English and French languages) and that there may have been dozens of later editions too. This is also backed up the fact that David McKay Publications (who published this book) was founded in September 1882. [edit] Edited by Teango on 20 June 2011 at 9:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5129 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 5 20 June 2011 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
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Yep, found both those sites by Googling. Trying to find an exact date is going to be difficult, I'm guessing.
Thanks, though! R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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