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Dialogues in French and English

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The work collects practical bilingual dialogues and vocabulary, presenting short conversational exchanges in French with English renderings alongside glossaries and word-lists. Organized as everyday phrases for communication—market, travel, and craft interactions—it juxtaposes literal translations and occasional Flemish-influenced renderings that reveal its adaptation from an earlier French-Flemish phrasebook. An editor’s introduction outlines textual history and editorial choices, and appended notes and lists provide lexical support. Overall it functions as a phrase-book and instructional resource, offering sample dialogues and vocabulary for learners or users seeking ready-made colloquial expressions and reference material.

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Title: Dialogues in French and English

Author: William Caxton

Editor: Henry Bradley

Release date: June 24, 2009 [eBook #29214]
Most recently updated: January 5, 2021

Language: English

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Introduction
Dialogues
English Words
French Words

Early English Text Society.

EXTRA SERIES, LXXIX.

Dialogues in French and English.

By WILLIAM CAXTON.

(Adapted from a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues
in French and Flemish.)

 
 

EDITED FROM CAXTON’S PRINTED TEXT (ABOUT 1483), WITH
INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND WORD-LISTS,
BY

HENRY BRADLEY, M.A.,

Joint-Editor of the New English Dictionary.

 
 

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY,
BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD.
MDCCCC.
Price Ten Shillings.

 
 

BERLIN: ASHER & CO., 13, UNTER DEN LINDEN.
NEW YORK: C. SCRIBNER & CO.; LEYPOLDT & HOLT.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

 
 

 
 

Extra Series, No. LXXIX.
OXFORD: HORACE HART, M.A., PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.