Sunday 26 October 2014

Jon Arvid Afzelius, Engelsk Uttalsordbok, (1909)


source: http://sok.riksarkivet.se

This is to inform the phonetic community that Jon Arvid Afzelius's dictionary "A concise pronouncing dictionary of English" ("Engelsk Uttalsordbok" is the Swedish title) is now available online as a pdf version. Go to this site and click "Klicka här för att ladda ner filen".


5 comments:

  1. Nice find. KB is the Swedish national library (kungliga biblioteket), but this appears to be an experimental site. Perhaps they're working towards putting pdf versions online. I checked their main site but couldn't see any obvious info or link.

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    1. Seems so. That link site contains seven html-docs, one of them being the Afzelius dict, another one is a book by Strindberg on religion. These digitised books are part of a European cooperation of libraries called EOD = Ebooks on Demand (see here: http://search.books2ebooks.eu/) for more information.

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    2. Not all of the ebooks are for free. I searched for Wyld's History of Modern Colloquial English. The Umeå University Library charges you SEK 697

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