Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French

London: Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. — 574 c. — ISBN 0-415-05893-7.It is a notorious fact that prefaces in dictionaries are seldom read. To those, notso-
few we hope, who will have braved cradition and actually turned to these
pages rather than plunge headlong into the 8000 or so headwords we strive to
lexicalize, here are a few thoughts and perhaps also a mode d’emploi.
Because this bilingual dictionary is intended to assist both French and English
speakers, this preface is followed by a préface; both introductions attempt to
define how each native speaker can best make use of this volume.
Where English speakers are concerned, this dictionary was conceived in order
to ‘bridge the gap between the kind of standard French taught in schools,
colleges and universities and the less formal language that visitors to France are
likely to be confronted with in everyday life.