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| Year: | 1676 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short description: | Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium description: | Elisha Coles' "An English Dictionary Explaining the Difficult Terms" "[W]as the first general dictionary to include both a wide range of dialect ... and ‘canting terms’, or criminal slang or flash talk" (Life, 2004) 25000 entries (Starnes & Noyes, 1991) Source of slang words in Bailey's dictionary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.187]
- Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press [p.84]
- 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.58]
- Life, Page (2004) Coles, Elisha (c.1640–1680) Retrieved 2014-03-19, from [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5892