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Language: en
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Authors: R. R. K. Hartmann
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offe
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Language: en
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The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755

Authors: DeWitt Talmage Starnes
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This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence a
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The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773

Authors: Allen Reddick
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This second edition of the acclaimed study of Johnson's Dictionary incorporates new commentary and scholarship.
The Dictionary Wars
Language: en
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The Dictionary Wars

Authors: Peter Martin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dic