Year: | 1702 | ||
Short description: | Kersey's 'New Dictionary' | ||
Medium description: | John Kersey's 'New Dictionary' of about 28000 words (Knowles and Crystal) 'For Young Scholars, Tradesmen, Artificers, and the Female Sex, who would learn to Spell Truely'. Whilst dictionaries prior to this focus only those words deemed difficult by their compilers, "[t]he importance of this work ... lies in its introduction into the English dictionary of ...the essential words of everyday speech, writing, and reading" (Starnes & Noyes, 1991, p.70). Starnes & Noyes (1991) state that the identity of the author is unknown but that it is most likely John Kersey. | ||
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