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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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This book deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702. The major scholarly reference works which individually treat early English dictionaries
Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective
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Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective brings together a wide range of current work on English-language lexicography and lexico
Rules of Use
Language: en
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Authors: Julian Lamb
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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We take it for granted that we can use words properly – appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what
Adventuring in Dictionaries
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Authors: John Considine
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Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth centur