Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901 – March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their...

romanized Pei in Wade–Giles Pei (surname), a Chinese surname (裴) or an Italian surname I. M. Pei (1917–2019), a Chinese-American architect Mario Pei (1901–1978)...

Word Origins, on Google books Archived 2023-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Mario Pei, The story of language, p.223 William Grimes, Eating Your Words, Oxford...

California Meleagris crassipes Southwestern turkey - New Mexico The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey. One theory suggests...

to be fully written in borrowed Chinese symbols. A study conducted by Mario Pei in 1949 which analyzed the degree of differentiation of languages from...

of connotations and cultural references whose mastery, writes linguist Mario Pei, "comes close to being a lifetime job." The complexity of the translator's...

use after using it in a speech in St. Louis May 31, 1916. According to Mario Pei, Roosevelt said, "When a weasel sucks an egg, the meat is sucked out of...

Italian in terms of vocabulary and other aspects. A study conducted by Mario Pei in 1949 which analyzed the degree of differentiation of languages from...

Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021. Pei, Mario (1949). Story of Language. Lippincott. ISBN 978-0-397-00400-3. See Italica...

intelligible to some degree. A 1949 study by Italian-American linguist Mario Pei, analyzing the degree of difference from a language's parent (Latin, in...

Chinese-born Swedish entrepreneur Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982), anthropologist Mario Pei (1901–1978), linguist "中国最新300大姓排名（2008 [Statistics on the number of citizens...

contact and/or conflict with one another, being originally conceived of by Mario Pei as being a branch of linguistics which would be used to do objective-oriented...

cuni.cz. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2012-04-30. Mario Pei, The Story of the English Language (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967)...

and interested laymen make concrete language proposals. By contrast, Mario Pei and others place the broader societal issue first. Yet others argue in...

Italian recipes, with an introduction and glossary by Romance linguist Mario Pei, was published in 1950 as The Talisman Italian Cookbook: Italy's Bestselling...

contact and/or conflict with one another, being originally conceived of by Mario Pei as being a branch of linguistics which would be used to do objective-oriented...

phonological features relative to other Romance languages. For example, linguist Mario Pei in a 1949 paper measured Logudorese Sardinian's accent vocalization as...

Contini & Tuttle, 1982: 171; Blasco Ferrer, 1989: 14. Story of Language, Mario Pei, 1949 Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, Cambridge University...

Tiwi, Enindhilyagwa) In this example, the subject "he" has been dropped. Mario Pei, Frank Gaynor, Dictionary of Linguistics, 1954, p. 92 Campbell 1997, p...

ISBN 0-415-11553-1. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2007-01-17. Mario Pei (1965). Invitation to Linguistics. Doubleday & Company. ISBN 0-385-06584-1...

Neil Olshey (class of 1983) – general manager, Portland Trail Blazers Mario Pei (b. 1900, class of 1918) – linguist Edmund D. Pellegrino – former chair...

Parenti P.M. Pasinetti - novelist, playwright, journalist, professor Mario Pei Tom Perrotta - novelist and screenwriter best known for the novels Election...

model for representing the history of Romance. In a study by linguist Mario Pei (1949), the degrees of phonological modification of vowels of the Romance...

Roman language after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. According to Mario Pei, the phonetic distance found between Portuguese and Latin stands at 31%...

Janikowski, Polish-born American NFL football kicker; in Wałbrzych Died: Mario Pei, 77, Italian-born American linguist and author of multiple bestselling...

of conservative Mennionites in those countries speak Plautdietsch. In Mario Pei's book Language, a popular poem in the dialect (with significant English...

Kavanagh, Oppi Untracht, Philippe Diole, Jack Ganzhorn, Leonard Wickenden, Mario Pei, Seon Manley, Anne Fremantle and many others, during his four decades...

(1921–1997) 19 Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973)  Italy novel, short story, poetry Mario Pei (1901–1978) 20 Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969)  Venezuela novel, short story...

Najder (2007), pp. 441, et passim. Najder (2007), pp. 292–95, 463–64. Pei, Mario (1984). The Story of Language (revised ed.). New York: New American Library...

Passeri Giuseppe Passeri Pope Paul V Pierfrancesco Pavoni Quintus Pedius Mario Pei Pope Pelagius I Pope Pelagius II Giordano Pellegrino Federico Peluso Jacopo...