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1440
The Promptorium parvulorum
The Promptorium parvulorum, compiled by an anonymous Dominican friar, registers about 12,000 English words with Latin equivalents; this is the first substantial dictionary with English lemmata. -
Period: 1440 to
The first period of English Lexicography
The history of dictionary-making for the English language goes as far back as the Old English period where its first traces are found in the form of glosses of religious books with interlinear translation from Latin. Regular bilingual English-Latin dictionaries were already in existence in the 15th century. -
1530
Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse
John Palsgrave’s English–French Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse offers the first sophisticated bilingual dictionary of two living European languages -
Worlde of wordes
John Florio publishes his Italian–English Worlde of wordes, amply expanded in 1611 as Queen Annas new world of words, with further renamed editions in the seventeenth century. -
Worlde of wordes
John Florio publishes his Italian–English Worlde of wordes, amply expanded in 1611 as Queen Annas new world of words, with further renamed editions in the seventeenth century -
Table Alphabeticall
Robert Cawdrey publishes his Table Alphabeticall, registering 2,498 ‘hard words’: the first free-standing non-specialized monolingual dictionary of English. -
Etymologicon linguae anglicanae
Stephen Skinner, Etymologicon linguae anglicanae, the first etymological dictionary of English, is published posthumously -
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The second period of English Lexicography
During this period, there was a tendency to preserve the purity of dictionaries. The idea of purity involved a tendency to oppose change -
Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language published 15 April in two folio volumes, registering some 43,000 lemmas, and providing a dictionary of English as elaborate, and as richly supported with quotations. -
The Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
In 1791 appeared “The Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language” by John Walker, an actor. -
A New English Dictionary
First fascicle (A–Ant) of the NED published 29 January by the Clarendon Press (the academic imprint of Oxford University Press), ed. James Murray on the basis of materials gathered under his editorship and those of Herbert Coleridge and F. J. Furnivall. -
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The golden age of English Lexicography
The Golden Age of English lexicography began in the last quarter of the 19th century when the English Philological Society started work on compiling what is now known as “The Oxford English Dictionary” -
A New English Dictionary of Historical Principles
And the last in 1928.- 128th and last fascicle (Wise–Wyzen) of the NED / OED published 19 April. -
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary, being a corrected re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, published in November. -
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language.
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, published 28 September. Attacks on the supposed permissiveness of the dictionary began in early September, the most violent being published in 1962. -
OED Online
OED Online launched 14 March.(2000). The online edition is the most up-to-date version of the dictionary available. -
Period: to
The modern period of English Lexicology
During this period, Internet dictionaries began to develop.
