• Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901 – March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their...
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  • romanized Pei in Wade–Giles Pei (surname), a Chinese surname (裴) or an Italian surname I. M. Pei (1917–2019), a Chinese-American architect Mario Pei (1901–1978)...
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    Word Origins, on Google books Archived 2023-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Mario Pei, The story of language, p.223 William Grimes, Eating Your Words, Oxford...
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  • dynasty official Carl Pei (born Péi Yǔ; 1989–), Chinese-born Swedish entrepreneur Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982), anthropologist Mario Pei (1901–1978), linguist...
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    of connotations and cultural references whose mastery, writes linguist Mario Pei, "comes close to being a lifetime job." The complexity of the translator's...
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    California Meleagris crassipes Southwestern turkey - New Mexico The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey. One theory suggests...
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  • contact and/or conflict with one another, being originally conceived of by Mario Pei as being a branch of linguistics which would be used to do objective-oriented...
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    use after using it in a speech in St. Louis May 31, 1916. According to Mario Pei, Roosevelt said, "When a weasel sucks an egg, the meat is sucked out of...
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  • and interested laymen make concrete language proposals. By contrast, Mario Pei and others place the broader societal issue first. Yet others argue in...
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    cuni.cz. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2012-04-30. Mario Pei, The Story of the English Language (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967)...
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