Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901 – March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their...

Look up pei or PEI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PEI or Pei may refer to: Matecaña International Airport, Pereira, Colombia, IATA code PEI Pei County...

Word Origins, on Google books Archived 2023-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Mario Pei, The story of language, p.223 William Grimes, Eating Your Words, Oxford...

of connotations and cultural references whose mastery, writes linguist Mario Pei, "comes close to being a lifetime job." The complexity of the translator's...

to be fully written in borrowed Chinese symbols. A study conducted by Mario Pei in 1949 which analyzed the degree of differentiation of languages from...

Italian recipes, with an introduction and glossary by Romance linguist Mario Pei, was published in 1950 as The Talisman Italian Cookbook: Italy's Bestselling...

California Meleagris crassipes Southwestern turkey - New Mexico The linguist Mario Pei proposes two possible explanations for the name turkey. One theory suggests...

and interested laymen make concrete language proposals. By contrast, Mario Pei and others place the broader societal issue first. Yet others argue in...

dynasty official Carl Pei (born Péi Yǔ; 1989–), Chinese-born Swedish entrepreneur Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982), anthropologist Mario Pei (1901–1978), linguist...

use after using it in a speech in St. Louis May 31, 1916. According to Mario Pei, Roosevelt said, "When a weasel sucks an egg, the meat is sucked out of...