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SE: English Lexicography
WS 1999/2000
A Brief History of English
Lexicography
(1) Latin and French Glossaries
Year
|
Author /Editor
|
Dictionary
|
Size /Type
|
1440
|
|
Promptorium Parvulorum, sivre
Clericorum ("Storehouse [of words] for children or clerics") |
English-Latin |
1476
|
|
Printing
in England |
|
1480
|
Caxton |
A French-English Glossary (no
title) |
French-English |
1499
|
Caxton |
Promptorium |
"hard words" |
1500
|
|
Hortus Vocabularum ("Garden
of Words") |
Latin-English |
1533
|
John Withals |
A Shorte Dictionarie for Yong
Begynners |
English-Latin |
1538
|
Sir Thomas Elyot |
Dictionary (Bibliotheca Eliotae) |
Latin-English |
1565
|
Thomas Cooper |
Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et
Britannicae ("Thesaurus of the Roman Tongue and the British") |
French-English |
(2) Early English Dictionaries: The Seventeenth Century
Year
|
Author /Editor
|
Dictionary
|
Size /Type
|
1552
|
Richard Huloet |
Abecedarium Anglo-Latinum |
English-Latin-(Fr.) |
1582
|
Richard Mulcaster |
Elementarie |
8,000 words |
1588
|
Thomas Thomas |
Dictionarium Linguae Latinae
et Anglicanae |
Latin-English |
1598
|
John Florio |
A Worlde of Words |
Italian-English |
1604
|
Robert
Cawdrey |
A
Table Alphabeticall .... |
2,500
words |
1616
|
John Bullokar |
An English Expositor |
ca. 5,000 words |
1623
|
Henry Cockeram |
The English Dictionarie (or
An Interpreter of Hard English Words) |
3 parts |
1656
|
Thomas Blount |
Glossographia (or A
Dictionary Interpreting all such Hard Words ... as are now used in our
refined English Tongue) |
|
1658
|
Edward
Phillips |
The
New World of English Words |
(specialists) |
1673
|
Thomas Blount |
A World of Errors Discovered
in the New World of Words |
|
1676
|
Elisha Coles |
An English Dictionary |
25,000 words |
(3) The Beginning of Modern Dictionary Practice: The
Eighteenth Century
Year
|
Author /Editor
|
Dictionary
|
Size /Type
|
1702
|
John
Kersey |
A
New English Dictionary |
28,000
words (70 years) |
1704
|
John Harris |
Lexicon Technicum (or
An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ...) |
|
1706
|
John Kersey, ed. |
Philips's New World of English
Words |
38,000 words |
1721
|
Nathan Bailey |
An Universal
Etymological English Dictionary |
40,000 words
(30 editions 1721-1802), etymology, word stress (1740) |
1727
|
Nathan Bailey |
Volume II |
supplementary volume: 2 parts,
1731 ed. |
1728
|
Ephraim Chambers |
Cyclopaedia (or An Universal
Dictionary of Arts and Sciences) |
|
1730
|
Nathan Bailey |
Dictionarium Britannicum |
48,000 words |
1747
|
|
Plan
of a Dictionary of the English Language |
"to
fix the language" |
1749
|
Benjamin Martin |
Lingua Britannica Reformata |
|
1755
|
Samuel Johnson |
Dictionary |
40,000 words (2 vls.) |
1755
|
Scott et al. eds. |
A New Universal English Dictionary |
|
(4) Dictionaries of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Year
|
Author /Editor
|
Dictionary
|
Size /Type
|
1757
|
James Buchanan |
Linguae Britannicae |
|
1764
|
William Johnston |
Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary |
|
1764
|
John Entick |
Spelling Dictionary |
|
1773
|
William Kenrick |
A New Dictionary of the English
Language |
|
1780
|
Thomas Sheridan |
A General
Dictionary of the English Language |
"respelled" |
1783
|
|
The
American Spelling Book |
260
impressions (1783-1843) |
1791
|
John Walker |
Critical
Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language |
|
1818
|
|
Encyclopaedia metropolitana |
(cf. OED) |
1818
|
Henry Todd, ed. |
Johnson's Dictionary |
|
1820
|
Albert Chalmers, ed. |
Todd-Johnson with Walker's Pronunciations |
abridged edition |
1828
|
Joseph E. Worcester, ed. |
Chalmers's Dictionary |
|
1828
|
Noah Webster |
An American
Dictionary of the English Language |
2 vols. |
1830
|
Joseph Worcester |
Comprehensive
Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language |
|
1837
|
Charles Richardson |
A New Dictionary of the English
Language |
(cf. OED) |
1841
|
Noah Webster |
An American Dictionary of the
English Language |
new edition |
1846
|
Joseph Worcester |
Universal and Critical Dictionary
of the English Language |
|
(1857)
|
Richard Chenevix Trench |
On Some Deficiencies in Our
English Dictionaries |
(cf. OED) |
1860
|
Joseph Worcester |
A Dictionary of the English
Language |
104,000 entries, 1,800 pages |
1864
|
Noah Porter, ed. |
A Dictionary of the English
Language |
unabridged, Webster-Mahn, Merriam-Webster |
1882
|
Charles Annandale |
The Century Dictionary |
|
1890
|
Merriam |
International Dictionary |
|
1893
|
Funk & Wagnalls |
Standard Dictionary of the
English Language |
|
(5) Dictionaries of the 20th Century
Year
|
Author /Editor
|
Dictionary
|
Size /Type
|
1909
|
Merriam |
International Dictionary |
|
1913
|
Funk & Wagnalls |
New Standard Dictionary of
the English Language |
450,000 terms |
1927
|
|
The New Century Dictionary |
|
1928
|
|
Oxford
English Dictionary |
1888-1928,
1933 |
1934
|
|
Webster's New International
Dictionary |
600,000 entries |
1938
|
Irving Lorge & Edward Thorndike |
A Semantic Count of English
Words |
|
1947
|
|
American College Dictionary |
132,000 |
1947
|
Funk & Wagnalls |
New College Standard |
145,000 |
1953
|
David Guralnik & Joseph Friend |
Webster's New World Dictionary
of the American Language |
|
1961
|
Philip Babcock Gove, ed. |
Webster's Third New International
Dictionary |
450,000 entries (100,000 new) |
1963
|
Philip Babcock Gove, ed. |
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate
Dictionary |
|
1966
|
Random House |
The Random House Dictionary
of the English Language |
|
1968
|
Random House |
Random House Dictionary, College
Edition (Random House College Dictionary) |
155,000 |
1969
|
|
American Heritage Dictionary |
|
1973
|
|
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary |
|
1983
|
|
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate
Dictionary |
160,000 |
© 1997-2000
Prof.
Dr. Peter Erdmann / Dr.
See-Young Cho,
Department of
Linguistics, Fak I,
Technical
University Berlin, Germany.
E-Mail: [email protected]
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