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PhD Linguistics Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Mario Andrew Pei was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics. His book The Story of Language was acclaimed for its presentation of technical linguistics concepts in ways that were entertaining and accessible to a general audience.

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Mario Pei's Published Works

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Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1957) (617)
A Dictionary of Linguistics. (1954) (114)
The story of language (1950) (55)
The World's Living Languages (1964) (30)
Language: A Modern Synthesis (1956) (29)
One Language for the World (1958) (28)
Glossary of Linguistic Terminology (1966) (24)
From Cave Painting to Comic Strip (1950) (23)
The Living Webster : encyclopedic dictionary of the English language (1971) (22)
What's in a word? : Language : yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1968) (20)
Italian Language (1941) (19)
or Does It (1946) (17)
The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages (1976) (16)
The Geography of Language (1945) (13)
The story of the English language (1968) (12)
The Lexicon Webster dictionary (1977) (11)
Meditations of the Life of Christ (1963) (10)
How to learn languages and what languages to learn (1973) (10)
Double speak in America (1981) (9)
Words in sheep's clothing (1969) (8)
A New Methodology for Romance Classification (1949) (8)
Invitation to Linguistics: A Basic Introduction to the Science of Language, (1965) (7)
Wanted : a world language (1969) (6)
Weasel words: The art of saying what you don't mean (1978) (6)
The Language of the Eighth Century Texts in Northern France (1935) (6)
Language for Everybody (1957) (5)
A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English Origins (1959) (5)
Languages in the Post-war World1 (1943) (4)
The Families Of Words (1962) (4)
A comparative practical grammar of French, Spanish and Italian (1949) (4)
What Languages Are Our Soldiers Up Against (1944) (3)
How to Build a Better Vocabulary (1961) (3)
The Function of Languages in the Post-War World (1944) (3)
All About Language (1954) (3)
Voices of man : the meaning and function of language (1965) (3)
The story of English (1952) (3)
Language For Everybody: What It Is And How To Master It (1958) (3)
One World? One Language? (1947) (2)
Latin and Italian Final Front Vowels (1943) (2)
A Modern Language Teacher Replies (1945) (2)
Suggestions for the Practical Teaching of the Sounds of Many Languages (1945) (2)
French precursors of the Chanson de Roland (1948) (2)
Getting along in Spanish (1958) (2)
Languages for War and Peace (1945) (2)
Invitation to Linguistics (1965) (2)
The Lexicon Webster dictionary : with a historical sketch of the English language (1971) (2)
A Rational Program for Teaching Languages in American High Schools (1945) (2)
The language of the eight[h]-century texts in northern France : a study of the original documents in the collection of Tardif and other sources (1935) (2)
The many hues of English (1967) (2)
Our names, where they came from and what they mean (1960) (2)
Dictionary of foreign terms (1975) (2)
Three Works on Italian Proverbs, Sayings and Idioms@@@Canti e proverbi maieratesi@@@Italian Idioms with Proverbs@@@A Dictionary of Colorful Italian Idioms (1967) (1)
It Comes to Languages—But Is It Science? (1946) (1)
Spanish-English Military Language Manual (1944) (1)
Languages for the Very Young (1948) (1)
Opportunities in Foreign Languages (1955) (1)
Education for Peace (1946) (1)
The New World Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary. (1974) (1)
University and Collegiate Syllabus for the Formation of the Professional Polyglot Technician (1945) (1)
The Function of Languages in Global War (1943) (1)
Teaching Foreign Languages in the Modern World (1962) (1)
English-Italian Italian-English Technical Dictionary (1961) (1)
Our National Heritage (1967) (1)
Language of the specialists : a communications guide to twenty different fields (1966) (1)
Ab and the Survival of the Latin Genitive in Old Italian (1948) (1)
Talking Russian before You Know It (1946) (1)
Getting Along in Russian (1960) (1)
The State of Linguistics: Reply to a Mechanist (1946) (0)
Interlingua-English Dictionary@@@Interlingua; A Grammar of the International Language (1952) (0)
A Glimpse of the Chinese Language: Peking's Language Reforms and the Teaching of Chinese in the United States (1966) (0)
Artificial Languages: International (Auxiliary) (1974) (0)
The American Road to Peace. A Constitution for the World (1946) (0)
Invitation to Linguistics. A Basic Introduction to the Science of Language@@@The Story of Language (1966) (0)
SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS MOST COMMONLY USED (1941) (0)
Talking Your Way Around the World (1971) (0)
Tales of the natural and supernatural (1972) (0)
Leave your language alone (1950) (0)
Some Comments on Spelling Reform (1946) (0)
Languages for Post-War Trade (1946) (0)
Etruscan and Indo-European Case-Endings (1945) (0)
Language today : a survey of current linguistic thought (1967) (0)
Getting along in French : a Holiday magazine language book (1958) (0)
Multi-Language Recording ( 33sstyle 1 3 RPM) (1962) (0)
Changing Times—Changing Words (1958) (0)
Scandinavian for War and Peace. (1945) (0)
Fashions in Language (1951) (0)
Studies in Romance philology and literature (1964) (0)
The world's chief languages : formerly languages for war and peace (1960) (0)
The America we lost : the concerns of a conservative (1968) (0)
New Italian Self-Taught (1982) (0)
External History of the Romance Languages (1975) (0)
The International Language (1959) (0)
Esperanto and Interlingua Compared (1958) (0)
Freedom Under Fascism (1935) (0)
Italian as a War Language, and beyond (1944) (0)
Getting along in Portuguese (1958) (0)
Old French Demonstratives (1936) (0)
The 1956 New York City Language Syllabus and the FL Scene (1957) (0)
A Further Blast against Jargon (1953) (0)
Aspects of Language (1955) (0)
Our Influence on Italian (1950) (0)
First-Year French, a Conversational Grammar and Reader (1950) (0)
Partridge on Usage (1955) (0)
Language in human society (1970) (0)
Six New Language Books (1946) (0)
Some Current Trends in Linguistic Works@@@Structural Linguistics, An Introduction for Teachers and Administrators@@@English as a Second Language: From Theory to Practice@@@The ABC's of Language and Linguistics@@@Linguistics: The Study of Language@@@Elements of General Linguistics@@@Introducing Lingu (1965) (0)
Contributions to The Modern Language Journal. (1970) (0)
The Loom of Language@@@Interglossa (1944) (0)
Rejoinder by Professor Pei (1944) (0)
Blurred Vision: The disturbing impact of Elecronic Media (1976) (0)
C. Dionisotti and C. Grayson, editors, Early Italian Texts . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949. Pp. vi, 170. (1950) (0)
Getting along in French (1961) (0)
The consumer's manifesto (1960) (0)
Liberal Arts Dictionary in English, French, German [and] Spanish (1952) (0)
Three Millennia of (Neo-)Latin@@@The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages@@@The Tongues of Italy@@@Il linguaggio d'Italia (1976) (0)

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