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| Year: | 1656 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short description: | Blount publishes 'Glossographia' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium description: | Thomas Blount's "Glossographia" published. 1st new English-English dictionary since 1623 (Starnes & Noyes, 1991). Borrowed from variety of sources but mostly from Thomas and Holyoke. 1st English-English dictionary to attempt to record etymologies and first to cite the authors he had consulted (Starnes & Noyes, 1991). 11000 entries, routine use of etymologies and "the 1st dictionary illustrations" (Crystal) [Bejoint states 1681] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.227]
- Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen & Sir Sidney Lee (1917). The Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.716]
- Bejoint, H. (2000). Modern Lexicography: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.94]
- 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]
- Brengelman, F. H. (1980) Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79/3 pp.332-354 [p.335]