Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Read through the second part of the article and take notes again. 3 Langenscheidt’s “Muret-Sanders” Eric Partridge’s “Dictionary of Slang” Daniel Jones’ “English Pronouncing Dictionary” “The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English” Dictionaries, dictionaries …(II) Bilingual dictionaries have always been popular with language learners and are, indeed, very useful, although they must be used with great care. Which one you choose again depends on what you want from your dictionary. A pocket dictionary is very handy when you are travel- ling, while for complicated translations you might turn to Langenscheidt’s Muret-Sanders. This contains 500,000 words in the English- German section, and 600,000 in the German- English section, and is probably the largest bilingual dictionary for the English language. Both native speakers and advanced language learners may need to consult even more specialised dictionaries concerned with the vocabulary of a certain subject, e.g., medicine, psychology, engineering, computing etc. One has only to look at such dictionaries to realise just how many words exist that most of us will never ever know. There are, for example, over half a million medical terms, of which a medical student probably knows 8,000, and an average speaker only 500. A further range of dictionaries are concerned with one particular aspect of the language. Eric Partridge’s famous Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1 st ed. 1937; new version 2005) covers four centuries of English slang. Daniel Jones’ famous English Pronounc- ing Dictionary and J.C. Wells’ Longman Pronunciation Dictionary provide guidance on the most common British and American pronunciations. In addition, there are dictionaries of idiomatic expressions such as the two-volumed Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English. There are rhyming dictionaries and dictionaries of abbreviations; there are dictionaries of etymol- ogy, which tell you about the origin of a word or phrase; and there are such delightful little dictionaries as dictionaries of eponymous words – which are words that came from a person’s name; the word “maverick,” for example, which means a wild and unconventional person, goes back to a Texan cattle rancher by the name of Samuel A. Maverick, who could not be bothered to brand his herd. When his cattle ran wild, neighbours refused to hand them over since they bore no brand marks. Despite this huge quantity of dictionaries, we still do not know exactly just how many words the English language has. There are probably something like 1.25 million words, and that does not even include technical terminology. But don’t worry – the average, educated native speaker knows no more than about 12,000 of these. to brand: mit einem Brandzeichen versehen cattle: Vieh who could not be bothered: der nicht dazu zu bewegen war to bear brand marks: Brandzeichen tragen 158 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verl gs öbv