Excerpt from Dictionary of Volap k: Volap k-English, English-Volap k The plan of this dictionary is somewhat different from any of those which have preceded it, and the changes were made with a view to ia creasing its utility. The idea of placing corresponding portions of the two vocabularies on the same page was obtained from the french-english dictionary of Bellows. While it is not intended that this work shall take the place of a manual of the language, it was thought best to provide the tables of the appendix in a form in which they might be carefully studied by themselves, to facilitate recognition at a glance of new words, and also to facilitate employment of properly constructed words. A number of ex pressions have been rendered into English and given in these pages which to many might appear superfluous in a work of this character, but they are as frequently used in some languages as many of our americanisms are used by ourselves, and they will be met with frequently in foreign corres pondence. In some few instances two forms of a word are given without comment, as one was the form known and recognized for some time and the other one of recent adoption. It has frequently been the practice of the inventor to use, as a derivative, an arbitrary word form obtained by the elision of one or more letters, sometimes of a characteristic syllable, from a regularly formed word, and it is open to question whether this should be encouraged, as in this manner Volapuk is deprived of one of its greatest beauties, viz., that of regular simplicity of construction. 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.