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Year:
1884, February 1
Short description:
First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED)
Medium description:
First of 12 volumes (Bejoint)
[West states 1885-1933]
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.336]
Knowles, G. (1979). A Cultural History of The English Language. London: Arnold [p.141]
Bejoint, H. (2000). Modern Lexicography: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.58]
Crystal, D. (1997). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language: Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.109]
Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed).
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4
. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194 [p.190]
West, Richard (1987). A consumer's guide to ELT dictionaries. in Sheldon, Leslie E. (ed.).
ELT Textbooks and Materials: Problems in Evaluation and Development
. Oxford: Modern English Publications, pp.55-75 [p.56]
Piercy, Joseph (2012). The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. London: Michael O'Mara Books Limited [p.163]