This new edition of "Vietnamese-English Student Dictionary "is a reprint" "of the 1967 Saigon edition and is an expanded version of the author s earlier "Vietnamese-English Dictionary "(Saigon, 1959; reprinted, Tokyo, 1966). Still a compact and handy one-volume student reference work the only one of its kind this edition contains some 45,000 entries ("vice "some 25,000 entries of the previous edition), and is thoroughly revised to provide illustrative examples both morphemes and words gleaned from newspapers and periodicals, government publications, and textbooks in both languages.An exceptionally rich corpus, the dictionary lists reduplicative forms, additive forms, verb-object compounds, Sino-Vietnamese compounds, and other polysyllabic loan-words from French, Malay, English, and other languages. The English equivalents are given in clear, accurate, and idiomatic English. A Guide to Pronunciation provides directions to the principal Vietnamese dialects."