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Chosen words, What goes into our dictionaries and why? This informative collection of essays shows how dictionaries today have grown from the small beginnings of English lexicography in Shakespeare's time. Discussion is anchored in the practice of the past, but the aut, Chosen words has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Chosen words
  • Written by author N.E. Osselton
  • Published by Exeter, England : University of Exeter Press, 1995., 1997/07/01
  • What goes into our dictionaries and why? This informative collection of essays shows how dictionaries today have grown from the small beginnings of English lexicography in Shakespeare's time. Discussion is anchored in the practice of the past, but the aut
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List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 The Character of the Earliest English Dictionaries 1
2 Figurative Words: Modern Practice and the Origins of a Labelling Tradition 16
3 Common Words: John Kersey and the First General Dictionary of English 25
4 Dialect Words in General Dictionaries 34
5 Old Words: Defining Obsolescence 46
6 Literary Words: Blount's Glossographia and Sir Thomas Browne 54
7 Setting up a New Bilingual Vernacular Dictionary: Henry Hexham (1647) 61
8 Style Markers: Early Bilingual Dictionaries and English Usage 73
9 Fixing the Spelling: Errour and Honor in Johnson and Bailey 83
10 Phrasal Verbs: Dr Johnson's Use of Bilingual Sources 93
11 A Dictionary Compiler at Work in the Sixteenth Century 104
12 Alphabetization in Early Dictionaries of English 117
13 An Eighteenth-Century Bilingualized Learners' Dictionary 127
14 Secondary Documentation in Historical Lexicography 137
15 Dictionary Criticism: Three Historical Dictionaries 148
16 Bilingual Dictionaries with Dutch: a Case Study in European Lexicography 157
Bibliography 167
Index 183


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