Glanville Price is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. His publications include The French Language, Present and Past (revised edition, 1998), Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe (Blackwell 1998), Languages in Britain and Ireland (Blackwell 2000), and An Introduction to French Pronunciation (Blackwell, second edition, 2005). He is the Series Editor of the Blackwell Reference Grammars.