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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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- 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]