![A Dictionary of Abbreviations](https://img.perlego.com/books/RM_Books/taylor_and_francis_daksqju/9781317431930_300_450.webp)
eBook - ePub
A Dictionary of Abbreviations
With Especial Attention to War-Time Abbreviations
Eric Partridge
This is a test
- 102 páginas
- English
- ePUB (apto para móviles)
- Disponible en iOS y Android
eBook - ePub
A Dictionary of Abbreviations
With Especial Attention to War-Time Abbreviations
Eric Partridge
Detalles del libro
Vista previa del libro
Índice
Citas
Información del libro
First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abbreviations. The preface notes that newspaper readers, sailors, soldiers and airmen had to thrust themselves, like explorers, into these abbreviations in search of truth, or the execution of their martial duty and hence, a dictionary was necessary. This book will be of interest to scholars of history and language, as well as the more general, interested reader.
Preguntas frecuentes
¿Cómo cancelo mi suscripción?
¿Cómo descargo los libros?
Por el momento, todos nuestros libros ePub adaptables a dispositivos móviles se pueden descargar a través de la aplicación. La mayor parte de nuestros PDF también se puede descargar y ya estamos trabajando para que el resto también sea descargable. Obtén más información aquí.
¿En qué se diferencian los planes de precios?
Ambos planes te permiten acceder por completo a la biblioteca y a todas las funciones de Perlego. Las únicas diferencias son el precio y el período de suscripción: con el plan anual ahorrarás en torno a un 30 % en comparación con 12 meses de un plan mensual.
¿Qué es Perlego?
Somos un servicio de suscripción de libros de texto en línea que te permite acceder a toda una biblioteca en línea por menos de lo que cuesta un libro al mes. Con más de un millón de libros sobre más de 1000 categorías, ¡tenemos todo lo que necesitas! Obtén más información aquí.
¿Perlego ofrece la función de texto a voz?
Busca el símbolo de lectura en voz alta en tu próximo libro para ver si puedes escucharlo. La herramienta de lectura en voz alta lee el texto en voz alta por ti, resaltando el texto a medida que se lee. Puedes pausarla, acelerarla y ralentizarla. Obtén más información aquí.
¿Es A Dictionary of Abbreviations un PDF/ePUB en línea?
Sí, puedes acceder a A Dictionary of Abbreviations de Eric Partridge en formato PDF o ePUB, así como a otros libros populares de Sprachen & Linguistik y Sprachwissenschaft. Tenemos más de un millón de libros disponibles en nuestro catálogo para que explores.
Información
First published in 1942 Revised and enlarged edition, April 1943
For my friend
HUGH KIMBER
who does not need it
HUGH KIMBER
who does not need it
All rights reserved
Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. CONSTABLE LTD. at the University Press, Edinburgh
Preface
This dictionary, which does not pretend to be complete, is designed to help civilians and those numerous members of H.M. Forces who are not experts in abbreviation, to make their way amid that jungle of abbreviations through which newspaper readers and sailors, soldiers, airmen have to thrust, like intrepid explorers, either in the search for truth or in the execution of their martial duty.
Civilians can afford to regard abbreviations either as a game or as an attempt at extrication from a verbal maze, but airmen and soldiers and sailors cannot afford to regard them so light-heartedly. Petty Officers and N.C.Os., and inexperienced officers in any of the Services, regard abbreviations as something more than a joke: and even experienced officers may find themselves at a loss when confronted with a new one or when they meet with a long set of instructions issuing from a Service not their own and couched in an abbreviology that may, in their first feeling of stupefaction, strike them as demonology.
Under the term abbreviations are included abridgements (e.g. att is " attached," det is " detachment ").
Gestapo, Nazi, Ogpu, Tass, and all other such words as have, from at least as early as 1940, been no longer apprehended, in English at least, as abbreviations, are excluded.
Corrections and additions will be welcomed.
Postscript to 2nd Edition.—I have to thank Mr George Dow, the very able and courteous Information Agent of the L.N.E.R., for a useful set of additional railway abbreviations.
A
GENERAL NOTE.—Chemical abbreviations have no points: thus N, not N., is nitrogen; Na, not Na., is natrium.
A. Acting; usually a, as in a/Lt.-Col., Acting Lieutenant-Colonel.
(2) Adjective. Also Adj. or adj.
(3) Adjutant; Adjutant's, as in "the A side " of a Divisional, Corps, or higher headquarters; A also = the Adjutant - General's Branch.
(4) Adult; for adults only (cinema programmes).
(5) Advance!: on clock-regulators.
(6) Answer.
(7) Argon. (Chemistry.)
(8) Article(s).
(9) On sleeve it= Fleet Air Arm. (Naval.)
a. Accepted.
(2) Acre(s).
(3) Active. (In Grammar.)
(4) Aged (of horses more than six years old).
(5) Alto.
(6) Area.
(7) At. (Rare.)
A.A. Anti-aircraft.
(2) Automobile Association.
(3) Army Act.
(4) Associate in Arts.
A.A.A. Amateur Athletic Association.
(2) Agricultural Adjustment Administration or Act (in U.S.A.).
A. A. & Q...
Índice
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
Estilos de citas para A Dictionary of Abbreviations
APA 6 Citation
Partridge, E. (2015). A Dictionary of Abbreviations (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1642469/a-dictionary-of-abbreviations-with-especial-attention-to-wartime-abbreviations-pdf (Original work published 2015)
Chicago Citation
Partridge, Eric. (2015) 2015. A Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1642469/a-dictionary-of-abbreviations-with-especial-attention-to-wartime-abbreviations-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Partridge, E. (2015) A Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1642469/a-dictionary-of-abbreviations-with-especial-attention-to-wartime-abbreviations-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2015. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.