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Johnson's dictionary was not the first English dictionary, nor even among the first dozen. Over the previous 150 years more than twenty dictionaries had been published in England, the oldest of these being a Latin-English "wordbook" by Sir Thomas Elyot published in 1538.
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Before Samuel Johnson's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.
In 1957, a century after the Philological Society first conceived the notion of a New English Dictionary, Robert Burchfield took up the editorship of the new Supplement with a fresh cohort of staff and once again solicited the help of readers. Initially intended as a single volume work of around 1,300 pages that would take seven years to ...
A Dictionary of the English Language, the famous dictionary of Samuel Johnson, published in London in 1755; its principles dominated English lexicography for more than a century. This two-volume work surpassed earlier dictionaries not in bulk but in precision of definition. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.)
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The first purely English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabetical (1604), treating some 3,000 words. In 1746–47 Samuel Johnson undertook the most ambitious English dictionary to that time, a list of 43,500 words.
Sep 17, 2018 · A Dictionary of the English Language, also called Johnson’s Dictionary, was first published in 1775 and is viewed with reverence by modern lexicographers. Who wrote the first English dictionary? Samuel Johnson created a widely imitated style of biography and literary criticism in addition to setting the meticulous tone of reference books.
Default. Overview. Vocabulary. On February 1, 1884, editors published the first volume of what would become the Oxford English Dictionary. The fascicle —one part of a larger book, this one 352 pages covering “a” through “ant”—sold only 4,000 copies.
