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| Year: | 1730 | ||||||||||||||||
| Short description: | Bailey's 'Dictionarium Britannicum' | ||||||||||||||||
| Medium description: | Nathan Bailey's "Dictionarium Britannicum". 48,000 entries (Starnes & Noyes, 1991) gathered from his "Universal Etymological English Dictionary" and its 2nd volume along with a small number of new words. Entries on certain words are greatly expanded to almost encyclopaedic length. Entries also attempt to list all the derived forms of the headword. | ||||||||||||||||
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- Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194 [p.188]
- Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press [p.84]
- Coleman, Julie (2004). A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries Volume II 1785-1858. New York: Oxford University Press [p.3]
- 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.117]