English-Amoy dictionary. 英語閩南語字典

Taichung: The Maryknoll language service center, 1995. — iv， 855 p. 瑪利諾語言服務中心。This dictionary is a revised and expanded version of the English-Amoy dictionary published by the Maryknoll language service center in 1979. It contains many new words and phrases. It is called English-Taiwanese dictionary rather than English-Amoy dictionary because it concerns itself for the most part with the language used in central Taiwan today rather than the entire area in which the Amoy dialect is used. The introduction given in the 1976 edition can be applied for the most part to this edition also. From that introduction it might be good to point out the following. Like the previous edition it is a work geared to the spoken language, not literary language form. Thus it more easily lends itself for use by any student at any stage of Taiwanese language study.