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Details for:
Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed).
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4
. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194
events
Events:
34 events from this source recorded
1476
Caxton introduces the printing press to England
1530
Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse'
1582
Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published
1587
Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae"
1596
Edmund Coote publishes 'The English Schoolemaister'
1598
John Florio's "A Worlde of Wordes"
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1623
Cockeram publishes 'English Dictionarie'
1656
Blount publishes 'Glossographia'
1658
Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words'
1671
Skinner's "Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae"
1674
Ray's 'Collection of English words' published
1676
Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary'
1702
Kersey's 'New Dictionary'
1708
Kersey's 'Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum'
1721
Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published
1730
Bailey's 'Dictionarium Britannicum'
1747
Johnson's 'Plan for a Dictionary' published
1749
Martin Benjamin publishes 'An English Dictionary'
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1780
Thomas Sheridan's two-volume "General Dictionary of the English Language"
1791
John Walker publishes 'Critical Pronouncing Dictionary'
1836
Richardson's 'A new dictionary of the English language' published
1850
'Imperial Dictionary: English, Technical and Scientific' by John Ogilvie
1857
Philological Society decide to collect words for supplement to current dictionaries
1884
First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED)
1898
1st volume of Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary'
1901
First edition of 'Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary'
1911
First edition of 'Concise Oxford Dictionary'
1926
Fowler's 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'
1928
Final instalment of OED published
1987
'Collins Cobuild English language Dictionary' published
1996
"The New Fowler's Modern English Usage"
1999
Lancashire's "Early modern English dictionaries database"