1st Edition
A Dictionary of Abbreviations With Especial Attention to War-Time Abbreviations
By Eric Partridge
Copyright 2015
108 Pages
by
Routledge
108 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface; Dictionary Entries
Biography
Eric Partridge
