Year: | 1676 | ||
Short description: | Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary' | ||
Medium description: | Elisha Coles' "An English Dictionary Explaining the Difficult Terms" "[W]as the first general dictionary to include both a wide range of dialect ... and ‘canting terms’, or criminal slang or flash talk" (Life, 2004) 25000 entries (Starnes & Noyes, 1991) Source of slang words in Bailey's dictionary | ||
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