Dictionary
The 412-page hard-back English-Maldivian dictionary A Maldivian Dictionary written by Christopher Hanby Baillie Reynolds was published on 22 July 2003 by Routledge and includes some 5000 individual entries.
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“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
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““Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?” asked Mrs. Dodypol. “It depends,” says I, “how much you used the dictionary before you read it.””
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“The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices—against half the human race—that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.”
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