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Useful, Entertaining, and Concise
This volume best serves a general audience - either those with a love for words, or those who'd like an affordable book on hand to reference when reading early American texts. Also it would be very helpful to a writer attempting to accurately represent the language of the period.

I would not classify it as an academic book - the scope of words addressed is ample but not comprehensive. The descriptions contain limited information on words origins and specific times/places of usage. In fairness, the author himself states in the preface, "...this glossary does not attempt to replace the Oxford English Dictionary.."

The book runs alphabetical, but there is also an index at the end (pages 251-267) that lists all the words by topic, which is quite handy for writers. Topics include agriculture, clothing, earthly terms [sexual intercourse, prostitutes, etc.], Fabrics, Fauna and Flora, Food and Drink, Games, Dances Musical Instruments, Household Contents, Law and Punishment, Medicine, Military and Nautical, Occupations, Places and People, Religion, Transportation, Weights and Measures.

There is a significant bibliography for those interested in additional resources. There is not any supplemental content that delves into commentary of language usage in Colonial America - this is strictly a glossary, albeit a very enjoyable one.

A Word Lover, Historian, or Genealogist's Delight
The great virtue of "Colonial American English" is that it collects many terms which are nowadays unfamiliar, defines them and in most cases provides an appropriate reference to demonstrate how the term wasused at the time.For those interested in words and in the period, you canspend many enjoyable hours browsing through the book.

But this is aspecialized book and I would recommend it only to historians, word lovers,and perhaps genealogists.The genealogist runs across many of thesespecialized words in transcribing estate inventories, daybooks and landrecords, but it certainly isn't for the average genealogist.

In definingparticular goods such as types of cloth, the book lists "alamode,nankeen, jane, Kendal cotton, and Kersey."You will find all of theseitems in a good, standard American dictionary with perfectly adequateexplanations.But it also lists "alopeen, bafta, bag Holland,barracan and beggar's velvet," which you won't find in a good,standard dictionary.

"Colonial American English" performsbetter when explaining cultural phenomena such a game "King andQueen" or the practice of giving money to a soldier to buy a coat"coat money" or the use of "barley water" to reduceinflamation. Standard dictionaries tend to put emphasis on the concrete andto gloss over the culturally ephemeral.

The book exells at defining twoand three word phrases such as "Labrador Tea, knee tember and chiphat," largely because such phrases (two and three word combinations)so rarely make it to a standard dictionary. ... Read more

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Excellent and helpful
My Portuguese was weak in financial and business terms.I found this small glossary helpful in almost everything that I needed.This book is great for general use, although a more specialized book may be necessary for particular areas of expertise (investment banking, for example).Whenever I need to use Portuguese business terms, this is the source I look to first.

Nice Dictionary, but poor in financial terms
The Glossary has a lot of tecnical terms, but it is a little bit poor in financial terms. It is good to someone who's learning english as foreign language or doing some business course. Is does not have especific termsabout some subject like financial and accounts. ... Read more

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Good Glossary
If you are in the translation business it will help you with troublesome words, strictly in the commercial and business areas. Still, I would have hoped it to be a bit more extensive in definitions. But, then again, it IS just a glossary. ... Read more

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for advanced learners
this book is helpful for advanced learners of cambodian language. if you know how to read cambodian it is easier to find the word your looking for as the book uses the cambodian alphabet to organize the words ... Read more

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