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Œuvres de Mario Pei
The New World Spanish/English, English/Spanish Dictionary (El New World Diccionario español/inglés,… (1969) 551 exemplaires
Words in Sheep's Clothing: How People Manipulate Opinion by Distorting Word Meanings (1969) 17 exemplaires
A Comparative Practical Grammar of French, Spanish and Italian (1949) — Directeur de publication; Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Wanted: a world language 3 exemplaires
The consumers̕ manifesto 2 exemplaires
La maravillosa historia del lenguaje 1 exemplaire
A Dictionary of Linguistics, 1954 1 exemplaire
La Maravillosa Historia del Lenguaje 1 exemplaire
The Australia New Zealand living Webster encyclopedic dictionary of the English language : twelve supplementary… (1975) 1 exemplaire
La Maravillosa historia del lenguaje 1 exemplaire
The New Grolier Webster International Dictionary Of The English Language Volume I 1975 Large Hardcover 1 exemplaire
Russia's secret weapon (reprint) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Living Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language (1971) — Introduction — 61 exemplaires
The Golden Carnation and Other Stories Told in Italy (1960) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 10 exemplaires
The Webster Reference Dictionary of the English Language: With a Historical Sketch of the English Language By Mario… (1982) 2 exemplaires
Teaching English as a Second Language in Elementary and Secondary Schools (1958) — Avant-propos — 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1901
- Date de décès
- 1978
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Italy (birth)
USA - Lieux de résidence
- Rome, Italy
New York, New York, USA - Études
- City College of New York
Columbia University - Professions
- professor
author
consultant to OSS, etc. - Organisations
- US Army School in Monterey
NATO
University of Pittsburgh
Columbia University - Courte biographie
- Mario Andrew Pei was born in Rome, Italy, in 1901. Like many Italians of the period, he moved with his family to New York City in 1908. Following his own father's scholarly example, he attended many public and parochial schools. He was an excellent student and was already fluent in five languages by the time he graduated from High School. He went on to learn 30 other languages, as well as the sentence structures of over 100 more languages. His education included receiving a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a doctorate from Colombia University in 1937.
He started teaching languages at City College in 1923 and joined the Department of Romance Languages at Colombia University in 1928. In 1932, he published "The Italian Language.” During World War II, his language proficiency was put to use as a language consultant to the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services. It was then at he wrote language courses and guides.
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- ISBN
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