Cassell's French-English, English-French Dictionary (Cassell modern language dictionaries) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0304333883 ISBN 13: 9780304333882

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1997

Synopsis

This French dictionary contains entries from both modern and classical idiom, covering contemporary scientific, technical and political vocabulary. It incorporates colloquial and idiomatic terms from contemporary usage, and provides irregular verb tables and lists of weights and measurements.

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Review:

"One handles this dictionary with the same pleasure that a craftsman feels when he finds that a tool, dulled and blunted by long use and passage of time, has come back sharpened and polished, refurbished and fit once more for long years of useful service. Everyone has his testing–points for a dictionary and the present reviewer, after submitting this one to the ordeal, awarded it a tentative full marks. Its minor defects pale into insignificance before the scholarly achievement of a work for which the publishers can rightly claim that it is ′the most authoritative, up–to–date and, within the limits of size, the most comprehensive French dictionary available.′" —The Times Educational Supplement

From the Back Cover:

Cassell′s Bilingual Dictionaries Acclaimed Worldwide Since 1854

• Includes neologisms, colloquial terms and idiomatic usage.
• Incorporates modern scientific, technical, political and industrial terms.
• Embodies French–Canadian regional words and phrases.
• Vocabulary covers both modern speech and classical, literary French, and includes proper names.

Reviewing the new dictionary The Times Educational Supplement said: "One handles this dictionary with the same pleasure that a craftsman feels when he finds that a tool, dulled and blunted by long use and passage of time, has come back sharpened and polished, refurbished and fit once more for long years of useful service. Everyone has his testing–points for a dictionary and the present reviewer, after submitting this one to the ordeal, awarded it a tentative full marks. Its minor defects pale into insignificance before the scholarly achievement of a work for which the publishers can rightly claim that it is ′the most authoritative, up–to–date and, within the limits of size, the most comprehensive French dictionary available.′"

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0304333883
• ISBN 13: 9780304333882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1440
• Editor: Girard Denis