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...

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)...

Oxford Complete Wordfinder Dhirendra Verma, Word Origins, on Google books Mario Pei, The story of language, p.223 William Grimes, Eating Your Words, Oxford...

of connotations and cultural references whose mastery, writes linguist Mario Pei, "comes close to being a lifetime job." The complexity of the translator's...

dynasty official Carl Pei (born Péi Yǔ; 1989–), Chinese-born Swedish entrepreneur Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982), anthropologist Mario Pei (1901–1978), linguist...

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...

California Meleagris crassipes Southwestern turkey - New Mexico The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey. One theory suggests...

Italian in terms of vocabulary and other aspects. A study conducted by Mario Pei in 1949 which analyzed the degree of differentiation of languages from...

intelligible to some degree. A 1949 study by Italian-American linguist Mario Pei, analyzing the degree of difference from a language's parent (Latin, in...

and interested laymen make concrete language proposals. By contrast, Mario Pei and others place the broader societal issue first. Yet others argue in...