Year: | 1723 | |
Short description: | Dyche's "Dictionary" | |
Medium description: | Thomas Dyche's "A Dictionary of all the Words Commonly us'd in the English Tongue; And of the most usual Proper Names; With Accents directing to their true Pronunciation". Not actually a dictionary but an extension of his "Guide to the English Tongue" with extra spelling and pronunciation help. Included several spelling innovations such as dropping the final k in words regularly spelt -ck, the final l in -ll and reducing -our to -or. Work includes 21000 words. | |
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