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Excerpt from The Marine's and Merchant's Polyglot Technical Dictionary, of Upwards of Five Thousand Nautical, Steam, and Ship-Building Terms, Commercial and Scientific Expressions: In Ten Different Languages, English, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Protuguese, and Russian; With a Precise Explanatory Key to the Pronunciation of These Languages Sounds at the beginning and. In the body of a word as in english; but is always pronounced as t at the end. Se. Sounds long as english ai or ay in: may, daily, pay, fair or as english a in: hate, date, fate, take. See A. Nb). Short, when not final as in english: met, let, wet. See A. Nb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.