We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English ‘works’ and this book reproduces and examines important texts in which early dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas. Fixing Babel provides authoritative transcriptions of documents from the front matter of major English dictionaries over a two-hundred-year period. It also provides commentary on, and annotation of, a wide range of lexicographical concerns.
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English ‘works’ and this book reproduces and examines important texts in which early dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas. Fixing Babel provides authoritative transcriptions of documents from the front matter of major English dictionaries over a two-hundred-year period. It also provides commentary on, and annotation of, a wide range of lexicographical concerns.
Rebecca Shapiro is associate professor of English at the City University of New York.
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Editorial Method List of Abbreviations William Clark A Dictionarie in English and Latine for Children, and Yong Beginners (1602) Robert Cawdrey A Table Alphabeticall, 2nd ed. (1609) [I. B.] John Bullokar An English Expositor: Teaching the Interpretation of the Hardest Words Vsed in Our Language (1616) Henry Cockeram The English Dictionarie: Or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words (1623) Edmund Coote The English Schoole-Master (1627) Thomas Blount Glossographia: Or a Dictionary (1656) Edward Phillips The New World of English Words: Or, a General Dictionary (1658) John Ray A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used (1674) Elisha Coles An English Dictionary (1676) Anonymous Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689) Abel Boyer The Royal Dictionary (1699) [J. K.] John Kersey A New English Dictionary (1702) John Kersey A New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary, 6th ed., rev. by John Kersey (1706) Anonymous Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, a Dictionary (1707) John Kersey [Philobibl.] Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708) Nathan Bailey An Universal Etymological Dictionary (1721) Thomas Dyche The Spelling Dictionary (1725) B. N. [Benjamin Norton] Defoe A Compleat Dictionary (1735) Nathan Bailey Dictionarium Britannicum, 2nd ed. (1736) Thomas Dyche and William Pardon A New General English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1737) Samuel Johnson The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747) Benjamin Martin Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary (1749) Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Joseph Nicol Scott A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755) Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language . . . Abstracted (1756) James Buchanan Linguæ Britannicæ Vera Pronunciato: Or, A New English Dictionary (1757) William Johnston A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary (1764) John Trusler The Difference between Words, Esteemed Synonymous, in the English Language (1766) William Kenrick A New Dictionary of the English Language: Containing, Not Only the Explanation of Words . . . but Likewise, Their Orthoepia or Pronunciation (1773) James Barclay A Complete and Universal English Dictionary on a New Plan (1774) John Ash The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1775) William Perry The Royal Standard English Dictionary (1775) John Walker A Dictionary of the English Language (1775) Thomas Sheridan A General Dictionary of the English Language (1780) Francis Grose A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) John Walker A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791) Hester Lynch Piozzi British Synonymy (1794) Noah Webster A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806) Noah Webster An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) Dictionaries with Their Complete Titles Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Editorial Method List of Abbreviations William Clark A Dictionarie in English and Latine for Children, and Yong Beginners (1602) Robert Cawdrey A Table Alphabeticall, 2nd ed. (1609) [I. B.] John Bullokar An English Expositor: Teaching the Interpretation of the Hardest Words Vsed in Our Language (1616) Henry Cockeram The English Dictionarie: Or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words (1623) Edmund Coote The English Schoole-Master (1627) Thomas Blount Glossographia: Or a Dictionary (1656) Edward Phillips The New World of English Words: Or, a General Dictionary (1658) John Ray A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used (1674) Elisha Coles An English Dictionary (1676) Anonymous Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689) Abel Boyer The Royal Dictionary (1699) [J. K.] John Kersey A New English Dictionary (1702) John Kersey A New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary, 6th ed., rev. by John Kersey (1706) Anonymous Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, a Dictionary (1707) John Kersey [Philobibl.] Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708) Nathan Bailey An Universal Etymological Dictionary (1721) Thomas Dyche The Spelling Dictionary (1725) B. N. [Benjamin Norton] Defoe A Compleat Dictionary (1735) Nathan Bailey Dictionarium Britannicum, 2nd ed. (1736) Thomas Dyche and William Pardon A New General English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1737) Samuel Johnson The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747) Benjamin Martin Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary (1749) Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Joseph Nicol Scott A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755) Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language . . . Abstracted (1756) James Buchanan Linguæ Britannicæ Vera Pronunciato: Or, A New English Dictionary (1757) William Johnston A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary (1764) John Trusler The Difference between Words, Esteemed Synonymous, in the English Language (1766) William Kenrick A New Dictionary of the English Language: Containing, Not Only the Explanation of Words . . . but Likewise, Their Orthoepia or Pronunciation (1773) James Barclay A Complete and Universal English Dictionary on a New Plan (1774) John Ash The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1775) William Perry The Royal Standard English Dictionary (1775) John Walker A Dictionary of the English Language (1775) Thomas Sheridan A General Dictionary of the English Language (1780) Francis Grose A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) John Walker A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791) Hester Lynch Piozzi British Synonymy (1794) Noah Webster A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806) Noah Webster An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) Dictionaries with Their Complete Titles Bibliography Index
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