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| Year: | 1708 | ||||||||
| Short description: | Kersey's 'Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum' | ||||||||
| Medium description: | Kersey's 'Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum'. Kersey set out to create a concise dictionary that would be accesible to all. Contains 35000 words, almost all from Kersey's reworking of Phillips, all with condensed definitions. | ||||||||
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- Bejoint, H. (2000). Modern Lexicography: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.96]
- 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]
- 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.69]