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| Year: | 1706 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short description: | Kersey's revision of Phillips' "New World" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium description: | J. Kersey's greatly revised version of Phillips' "New World of Words". Can be "regarded as a new dictionary" (Starnes & Noyes, 1991, p.84) 38000 entries, 20000 more than original (Starnes & Noyes, 1991) even though Kersey removed the "Abstracts of the Lives of Eminent Persons, Poetical Fictions, Geographical Descriptions". The additional words are: scientific and technical, from Harris; legal, from Kennett's revision of Cowell; and "country-words", from Ray and Worlidge. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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