Vehicle horn of vehicle horns are used by percussionists as sound effects, or even melodically, in musical works. For example, George Gershwin's 1928 orchestral work "An American in Paris" calls for the use of 4 taxi horns. György Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" features two "Car Horn Preludes" scored for 12 bulb horns, each one tuned to a specific pitch. Klaxon is a trademark for a brand of electromechanical horn or alerting device. Mainly used on cars, trains and ships, Klaxon horns produce an easily identifiable sound, often transcribed onomatopoeiacally in English as "ahoooga." Like most mechanical horns, the klaxon has largely
A Greek–English Lexicon to this riddle: which was by Scott and which was by Liddell?</poem> Two condensed editions of LSJ were published by Oxford University Press and remain in print. In 1843, the same year as the full lexicon's publication, "A Lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek–English Lexicon", sometimes called "the Little Liddell" was published. Several revised editions followed. For example, a reprint, re-typeset in 2007, of the 1909 edition is available from Simon Wallenberg Press (). In 1889, an intermediate edition of the lexicon, "An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon", was prepared on the basis of the seventh edition (1882) of LSJ. In