• 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...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    of connotations and cultural references whose mastery, writes linguist Mario Pei, "comes close to being a lifetime job." The complexity of the translator's...
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    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...
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  • dynasty official Carl Pei (born Péi Yǔ; 1989–), Chinese-born Swedish entrepreneur Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982), anthropologist Mario Pei (1901–1978), linguist...
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  • and interested laymen make concrete language proposals. By contrast, Mario Pei and others place the broader societal issue first. Yet others argue in...
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    California Meleagris crassipes Southwestern turkey - New Mexico The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey. One theory suggests...
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  • 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...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Contini & Tuttle, 1982: 171; Blasco Ferrer, 1989: 14. Story of Language, Mario Pei, 1949 Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, Cambridge University...
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    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...
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  • Parenti P.M. Pasinetti - novelist, playwright, journalist, professor Mario Pei Tom Perrotta - novelist and screenwriter best known for the novels Election...
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  • 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...
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  • Tiwi, Enindhilyagwa) In this example, the subject "he" has been dropped. Mario Pei, Frank Gaynor, Dictionary of Linguistics, 1954, p. 92 Campbell 1997, p...
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    Neil Olshey (class of 1983) – general manager, Portland Trail Blazers Mario Pei (b. 1900, class of 1918) – linguist Edmund D. Pellegrino – former chair...
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    phonological features relative to other Romance languages. For example, linguist Mario Pei in a 1949 paper measured Logudorese Sardinian's accent vocalization as...
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  • Italian recipes, with an introduction and glossary by Romance linguist Mario Pei, was published in 1950 as The Talisman Italian Cookbook: Italy's Bestselling...
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    Janikowski, Polish-born American NFL football kicker; in Wałbrzych Died: Mario Pei, 77, Italian-born American linguist and author of multiple bestselling...
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  • Kavanagh, Oppi Untracht, Philippe Diole, Jack Ganzhorn, Leonard Wickenden, Mario Pei, Seon Manley, Anne Fremantle and many others, during his four decades...
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    of conservative Mennionites in those countries speak Plautdietsch. In Mario Pei's book Language, a popular poem in the dialect (with significant English...
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  • Passeri Giuseppe Passeri Pope Paul V Pierfrancesco Pavoni Quintus Pedius Mario Pei Pope Pelagius I Pope Pelagius II Federico Peluso Jacopo Peri Ivo Perilli...
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    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...
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  • Pater Noster: Claudius Colas, L'Adjuvilo. Paris, Gamber, 1910. 32+ pp. Mario Pei, One Language for the World and How To Achieve It. Devin-Adair, New York...
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    (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...
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    Roman language after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. According to Mario Pei, the phonetic distance found nowadays between Portuguese and Latin stands...
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