A Cantonese Dictionary
Eitel published his Cantonese dictionary, Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect in 1877, based on a Cantonese glossary dictionary Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect written in 1856 by Samuel Wells Williams. This expanded the work of James Legge on the Kangxi Dictionary. His publication was intended to standardize the pronunciation of Cantonese.
His work was criticised by Wong Shik Ling in the book A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton on the basis that it inherited inaccuracies from former works.
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