ERIC Number: ED036533
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Publication Date: 1968
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Dictionaries: British and American. The Language Library.
Hulbert, James Root
An account of the dictionaries, great and small, of the English-speaking world is given in this book. Subjects covered include the origin of English dictionaries, early dictionaries, Noah Webster and his successors to the present, abridged dictionaries, "The Oxford English Dictionary" and later dictionaries patterned after it, the process of making a dictionary, specialized dictionaries, and the selection and use of a dictionary. (LH)
Descriptors: Definitions, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dictionaries, Educational History, English, Etymology, Language Classification, Language Usage, Lexicography, Lexicology, North American English, Reference Materials
Andre Deutsch, 100 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada ($4.75)
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