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| Year: | 1658 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short description: | Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium description: | Edward Phillips publishes "The New World of English Words". Contains a history of the English language in the preface; Phillips claimed to have used the services of a team of subject specialists in the compilation but the text shows little evidence of this (Starnes & Noyes, 1991). In the "Advertisement to the Reader" he belittles the efforts made by Blount. However, he borrows more from Blount's "Glossographia" than any other source. Crystal states 20000 words whilst Starnes & Noyes (1991) state around 11000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.208]
- Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen & Sir Sidney Lee (1917). The Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.0]
- Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194 [p.187]
- Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press [p.83]
- Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.380]
- Starnes, D. W. T. & Noyes, G. E. (1991). The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson. 1604-1755. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press [p.37]