Bilingual dictionary
OwnerHarold J. Manninventor
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Abstract
This invention is an improved bilingual dictionary in which cognates are physically distinguished from other words. Cognates are words which are identical in meaning and similar in spelling in two languages. Such words are distinguished from other words in the dictionary by being printed against a distinctly colored background, by being printed with distinctly colored ink, by being printed in a distinguishing typeface, by location in a column of words, or by adjacent symbols. The object of this bilingual dictionary is to facilitate a student's recognition and appreciation of the number of words in a second language which the student already knows without additional study.
Claims18
An improvement in a bilingual dictionary of the type used in facilitating self-instruction in a foreign language in which words in a first language are listed in alphabetical order and words in a second language having meaning corresponding to those in the first language are listed adjacent to those in the first language, said improvement comprising
- having words identical in both languages which are cognates and which are identical in spelling or differ only in one or a few letters in both languages printed or displayed in a manner other than the spelling of such words which distinguishes such words from words in the bilingual dictionary that are not cognates.
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