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Year:
1857
Short description:
Philological Society decide to collect words for supplement to current dictionaries
Tags:
history of English
in Britain
dictionary
Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.334]
Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed).
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4
. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194 [p.189]