Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002972, Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:36:43 -0800

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VN's favorite Russ. Dictionary onCD-ROM - V.I. Dal Dictionary of
Russian Language (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. While at Cambridge, the young Nabokov, fearing to lose his
Russian, found and bought Vladimir Dahl's four-volume Russian dictionary
(SM, XIV, 4). He vowed to read and take notes on ten pages a day.
Dahl's dictionary is a treasure trove containing not only the
literary vocabulary but thousands of dialectical words and proverbs. I have
found my circa 1910 copy invaluable over the years. Although the
dictionary has been reprinted, the advantages of having it on CD-ROM are
considerable. Hence, I pass on the item below.
Do note that is a monolingual Russian dictionary.
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Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 07:45:25 -0800 (MSK)
From: Igor Fagradiants <Igor@igor.erika.dol.ru>
Reply-To: igor@ets.ru

The 4-Volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian living Language
by Vladimir Dal
is alive again!

How many words are there in this jewel box of Russian lexicography?

How many words were marked by Vladimir Dal personally as cross-references?

How many word entries does the dictionary comprise?

Want those questions to be answered? Then buy the CD-ROM version of the classical Dal Dictionary issued by the three leading Russian Publishers: AST, Veche, and ETS.

2 326 221 words
410 556 words marked in the word entries
44 694 word entries

Immediate search for each of the words, cross-references, and word-entry headwords! The CD-ROM Dal Dictionary provides extremely easy and user-friendly word look-up from the screen and from the keyboard. You may use the original version of Russian spelling (the XIX centuary) or its modern version to find a word in the dictionary.

The software was developed by ETS Ltd. It provides 3-level real-time search using word-entry headwords (44,694 words), marked words (index search avoiding repetitions - 502,791 words), full text search, and numberless cross-references. It also provides automatic insertion of the dictionary entry or its portion into your text editor via Clipboard with full preservation of the original formatting and styles!

The classical dictionary by Vladimir Dal is alive again! You don't have to turn over the pages in the 4-volume giant to find a word, proverb, saying, explanations and usage examples. Just click your mouse or keyboard a couple of times, and you will have the information required in almost no time!
The compact disk can be used by anybody, including school children who can hardly take a book like that off the book shelf, and professionals in Slavonic studies.

Interested? Then order a copy at:


- ETS Publishers 13 Podsosenski pereulok, Moscow 103062, Russia. Tel./Fax
(095) 917 21 60, E-mail: ets@ets.ru; Internet: http://www.ets.ru Price $72
+ VAT 20% + postage $32


Since late March, the disk will also be available at all large Moscow book
shops, computer shops, and in the computer companies selling CD-ROM, such
as Amber, Aquella, Wist-Soft, Juniver, Formoza, New Disk, Ponis, Golden
Cock, and others.