[1] It is a guide dictionary for translating between English and the Myanmar Language.
[2] Hla Pe, professor of Burmese at the University of London (1948–1980), worked with others on the A Burmese–English Dictionary project, which began in 1925 under the aegis of the Burma Research Society, was continued at the University of Rangoon and then the School of Oriental and African Studies (London).
This small group completed 6 volumes of the dictionary,[3] each 80 large-format pages, but it remains incomplete.
Furnivall, Gordon H Luce, Charles Duroiselle, Anna Allott, John Okell and, from the United States, R. Halliday and A. C. Hanna.
Oxford English Dictionary 4th editor C. T. Onions said "A lexicographer's life is a dog's life, but a lexicographer generally lives to an old age".