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STUDENT'S DICTIONARY </div>
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MARY R. f--IAAS</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS<br />STAN FORD, CALIFORNIA</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The principal aim of this dictionary is to provide a convenient reference work for the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">English-speaking student of Thai. Existing Thai-English dictionaries--at least those prepared </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">within the last two decades--are invariably geared to meet the needs of the Thai-speaking stu-dent of English, since that is the market they are intended to reach.  But such dictionaries fail </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">in certain crucial respects to satisfy the legitimate needs of the American student.  In particu-lar it has been noticed that: (1} They fail to provide a scientifically accurate and up-to-date </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">guide to the pronunciation of Thai words. (2) They neglect to distinguish important levels of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">usage, e.g., vulgar, common, elegant, colloquial, literary, etc., which are well known to Thai </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">speakers but are impossible for the culturally-unoriented American student to figure out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">(3) They lack many important idioms, compounds, and other specialized combinations of words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">(4) Examples, when given, are more likely to be chosen to clarify the peculiarities of English </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">than those of Thai. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The present dictionary contains the following types of information with each of its en-tries: ( 1) The traditional Thai spelling as shown in the official Thai monolingual dictionary </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">(the Thai :Ministry of Education, Bangkok, 1950).  (2) A carefully worked out phonemic trans-cription using Roman letters.  (3)  An abbreviation designating the word class, where pertinent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">(4) The level of usage, both social and technical, where pertinent. (5) The English definition </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">or equivalent.  (6)  Many synonyms and antonyms.  (7)  Examples showing a variety of uses, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">when the definition alone is insufficient.  The dictionary also contains some special kinds of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">entries which are missing from many dictionaries. Among these are: (1) Most of the common </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">place names of Thailand, including abbreviated and colloquial (but not dialectal} place names </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">and also most of the common foreign place names likely to be found in newspapers. (2)  Com-mon abbreviations of titles, organizations, dates, and the like that are frequently encountered </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">in newspapers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Although this dictionary has been prepared especially to meet the needs of the Ameri-can student who wishes to read Thai newspapers and other Thai source materials, the Thai stu-dent of English will also find much useful information in this dictionary. The reason for this </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">is that we have tried very hard to find the best and most natural English translation for as many </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">words as possible. The numerou·s subentries and examples will also often be of interest to the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Thai student as well as the American student.</span></div>
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THAI-ENGLISH STUDENT'S DICTIONARY

THAI-ENGLISH STUDENT'S DICTIONARY Compiled by MARY R. f--IAAS STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STAN FORD, CALIFOR...