The history of the Oxford English Dictonary A brief description, with appearances by some of the key...
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The history of the Oxford English Dictonary
A brief description, with appearances by some of
the key players
© Wim van der Wurff, Newcastle University, 2009
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The Oxford English Dictionary (1st edn; 1928)
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Some earlier English dictionaries
• Robert Cawdrey (1604) Table Alphabetical (first English-English dictionary; 2500 words, copied from a Latin-English dictionary)
Soon after this, several other dictionaries were published. Further landmarks are:
• Elisha Coles (1676) An English Dictionary (25,000 words; plagiarises much from previous dictionaries; adds jargon terms, obsolete words and dialect words (marks these and specifies the relevant county)
• Samuel Johnson (1755) Dictionary of the English Language. (quite full and scholarly; includes quotations to illustrate word usage)
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Samuel Johnson
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Planning the OED
• First discussed at meeting of Philological Society, 1857
• Existing dictionaries were criticised for being incomplete and unsystematic
• Plan: a record of all words ever used in the language, with etymology, list of spellings, division into subsenses, and supporting quotations for each sense
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Richard Trench, Dean of Westminster, one of the three initial movers of the OED
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Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the OED
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James Furnivall, editor of the OED 1861-1870
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James Furnivall at work
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James Furnivall at play: the Hammersmith sculling club for ladies