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| Year: | 1553 | ||||
| Short description: | Wilson's 'The arte of rhetorique' published | ||||
| Medium description: | Thomas Wilson's 'The arte of rhetorique' published. 1st recorded use of term 'inkhorn', to mean unnecessary anf fanciful neologism, attributed by Piercy to Wilson. | ||||
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- Knowles, G. (1979). A Cultural History of The English Language. London: Arnold [p.81]
- Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.291]
- 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.104]