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Excerpt from An Anglo-Chinese Vocabulary of the Ningpo DialectJust before his death, the Rev. Dr. Knowlton reviewed the entire manuscript, and added many Chinese words and phrases.The original plan was to give the equivalents of the English words in the Romanized System, and also in the Chinese char acter, adhering as closely as possible to the sound of the colloquial. In carrying out this plan great difficulties were encountered.About the Pub...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Chinese Vocabulary of the Ningpo Dialect The third and greatest difficulty lay in the fact, that there are no characters to represent a large number of colloquial sounds, as will be seen by the Syllabary following the preface. No doubt one thoroughly acquainted with the dialect, and with the oeng-li, could say absolutely that certain words must be expressed by certain characters. This field, interesting as it is, has as...

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