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PREFACE It is sometimes considered unnecessary for those engaged in the practical development of industrial processes to concern themselves with the so-called theoretical aspects of their subject. On examination, it is usually found that exponents of this point of view are not entirely consistent,...

PREFACE In the 1930s the late Pieter Geyl started a work in many volumes on the history of the Dutch-speaking population in the Northern and the Southern Netherlands, in South Africa, and in the Dutch colonies: Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse stam. His main innovation was that he included in his...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION i. The plan of this book, as it was originally conceived, may be briefly summed up as follows :- (1)The English boy cannot write English. (2)The English boy is not taught to write English. (3)The French boy can write French. (4)The French boy can write French because he...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This book is nominally an abridgement of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, but has in fact cost its compilers more labour, partly because the larger book was found not to be easily squeezable, and partly owing to changes in method unconnected with mere reduction of...

PREFACEIn this book an attempt has been made to present in dictionary form the main elements in the accidence and syntax of the English language, both spoken and written. Spelling, punctuation, pronunciation, and idiom have their place in the scheme of what is intended to be a dictionary of grammar...