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Roots of English
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by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University
Roots of English
An Etymological Dictionary*
by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University
Roots of English is a free software package developed by Dr. Cotter at Seton Hall University. The software was created using Asymetrix's Toolbook, but it is self-contained and packages as a simple, standard Windows Installation program for the PC. (sorry, no Mac version). The software will help you find the Greek and Latin roots of thousands of words in the English language, and the hypertext links make it fast and easy to use. The Dictionary also contains background on the history of English and details on the sources of individual words.
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Das "Newsletter archive" enthält interessante Beiträge seit Januar 1995:
Introducing the OED Archivist: The new OED Archivist relects on her first year at OUP (Beverley Hunt, December 2004)
Life as a library researcher: An insight into this crucial aspect of the OED's work (Brigid Allen, September 2004)
19 April 2004: a day in the life of the OED: A snapshot of the OED revision project
Words of choice: a selection of words with unusual origins: 'Hobbit', 'gossip', 'dunce': some interesting etymologies (John Simpson, December 2003)
Exotic words in the OED: The OED's treatment of words of non-European origin (Sarah Ogilvie and Joanna Tulloch, September 2003)
OED: 75 years and more: A brief history of the OED (Peter Gilliver, June 2003)
Lex in the City: reflections on a year in the North American Editorial Unit: The work of two new American editors based in New York (Madeline McDonnell and Abigail Zitin, March 2003)
J. R. R. Tolkien and the OED: Waggle to warlock: Tolkien's contribution to the OED (Peter Gilliver, June 2002)
‘Doh!’ before Homer: the Appeals list and the process of continuous revision: How the OED is able to incorporate readers' contributions even after a revised entry has been published (Juliet Field, March 2002)
Varieties of English: World English and the OED: The task of increasing the OED's coverage of vocabulary from the major varieties of world English (Jennie Price, June 2001)
Some recent OED releases: a tale of two treats: The OED's treatment of marzipan and marchpane in the light of new evidence (Peter Gilliver, March 2001)
The OED and its cousins: A comparison of the progress of the OED with other historical dictionaries (Edmund Weiner, December 2000)
September 2004: Editorial | Life as a library researcher | Court in controversy | Project news | Appeals | Interesting antedatings | Quotable quotes | R. W. Burchfield 1923-2004
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December 2003: Editorial | The OED's Artist in Residence | Words of choice | Appeals | Interesting antedatings | Quotable quotes
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January 1998: Editorial | Quotable quotes | News from the OED Archives | Dash and squash | Appeals list | Additions series, vol. 3
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Appeals list:
The list given below contains words and phrases which have appeared in the OED News "Appeals Lists" since 1995. Items marked with an asterisk appear in the most recent issue of OED News.
Words or phrases which appear on the "Appeals List" are those currently being drafted or revised for the Oxford English Dictionary for which the documentary evidence is incomplete. Often these are slang or colloquial items which cannot be researched in specialist texts and are most likely to be turned up by a general reader in popular or non-specialized literature.
Usually the appeal is for an earlier example than our current earliest (e.g. "antedate 1970" for a word for which our earliest example comes from 1970), but sometimes the appeal is for an interdating where there is a large gap in the OED's quotation evidence (e.g. "interdate 1589-1910"). Occasionally we ask for a postdating (e.g. "postdate 1875"), if an editor feels that an item being revised is still current but has failed to find any recent examples through the usual avenues of research.
If you can help with any of these appeals, please send information to oed3@oup.com.
bawheid n. (Scottish: a person with a round face, a fool): antedate 1985
Beantowner n. (person from Boston): antedate 1961 (now antedated to 1915)
to bear in with (Naut. to approach): postdate 1607 (in contextual use) (postdate 1686, contextual)
to be in with a chance: antedate 1982, as in ‘to be in [etc.]’ (now antedated to 1929, as ‘to fall in [etc.]’)
to have been (to have been to the toilet, e.g. ‘Have you been?’; ‘Go to the toilet!’ ‘I've been’): any evidence (examples of 1959 and 1958 added; earlier and later still needed)
been there, done that: antedate 1991 (now antedated to 1983)
bee-stung adj. (of a woman's lips): antedate 1953 (now antedated to 1858)
Belle Epoque (turn-of-century France): antedate 1960 (now antedated to 1950)
cark (it) v. (to die): antedate 1977, and any British evidence
cat in the meal-tub: antedate 1849; any 20th century evidence (now antedated to 1839) antedate 1839; any 20th century evidence
chance is/was a fine thing: postdate 1950 (now postdated; antedate 1912)
chance would be a fine thing: antedate 1981 (now antedated to 1969)
chip van (n.): antedate 1953
chuffing adj. (e.g. a ‘chuffing train’): antedate 1920
chuffing n. (e.g. ‘the chuffing of the train’): antedate 1984 (now antedated to 1948)
clean sheet (an instance of no goals being scored in a match): antedate 1962 (now antedated to 1931)
constipatedly (adv.): antedate 1961 control freakery antedate 1990
curvy adj. (of woman or woman's figure): antedate 1961 (now antedated to 1958)
dead leg: (noun: numb leg, esp. as a result of a kick etc.) antedate 1987
deadleg (verb: give someone a dead leg): antedate 1972
do someone's head in (confuse, annoy, etc.): antedate 1989
D'oh!, Doh! (Expression of frustration used when a person has done something stupid; popularized by Homer Simpson): antedate 1993 (now antedated to 1945)
donkey (n.: (S. Afr.) primitive water-heating device): antedate 1997
donor fatigue: antedate 1984 (now antedated to 1973)
don't call us .. (we'll call you) (phr.): antedate 1987, or any exx. in print (now antedated to 1959; variants also accepted (e.g. with ‘ring’))
dowager's hump: antedate 1970 (now antedated to 1927)
driven adj. (as by ambition, urgency etc.): antedate 1932
easy peasy: antedate 1976
editrix: antedate 1845
fabbo: adj. antedate 1984
fabby: adj. antedate 1971
face (phr. out of / off one's face, = drunk/drugged): pre-1972 and 1972-90 exx. required antedate 1972
fanny about or around: antedate 1971
felch v.: antedate 1972
felching vbl. n.: antedate 1991 (now antedated to 1989)
fell off (the back of) a lorry/truck: antedate 1973 (now antedated to 1968)
Fred Nerk (imaginary person): any evidence (exx. of Fred Nerk are no longer required; nerk has been dated to 1955)
the full monty: antedate 1985
full-on adj. and adv. (all-out, unrestrained): pre-1985 evidence in context (antedated to 1970 contextually, and to 1893 in glossaries)
mishit adj. (ball, etc.): antedate 1978 (now antedated to 1976)
misorder (to make a mistake in ordering merchandise, etc.): antedate 1988 (also 1985 as a noun) (verb now antedated to 1962; exx. of noun still needed)
misplace (to lose, mislay): antedate 1989 (now antedated to 1878)
mission statement: antedate 1979 (now antedated to 1967)
mississippi-table: postdate 1801
mistruth n.: antedate 1959 (now antedated to 1944)
moiré fringe: antedate 1956
moiré pattern: antedate 1950 (now antedated to 1949)
monetarily adv.: antedate 1968, but in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895 (now antedated to 1869)
monkishly adv.: antedate 1981, but in 1934 Webster (now antedated to a1722)
monocleid adj. (locked with a single key): postdate 1870 (also as a noun) (now postdated to 1891)
monopolizing, -ising adj.: postdate 1891 (now postdated to 2000)
mood (be/get in a mood with someone, etc.): any evidence
moon-box (theatre - device to produce representation of the moon): any evidence (now postdated to 2002)
moony, moonie (act of exposing the buttocks): antedate 1990
moose milk (Canad., = alcoholic drinks): antedate 1957 (now antedated to 1926, as 'wild moose milk')
mop bucket: antedate 1941 (now antedated to 1933)
more adj. (followed by a singular count-noun in non-standard grammatical use, e.g. ‘Get more car for your money’): antedate 1950, or any example
mouth almighty: any evidence (antedated to 1875, and perh. to c1837; already have glossarial example 1864)
movie mogul: antedate 1973 (antedated to 1916)
much maligned: antedate 1932 (antedated to 1846)
mucky pup (noun: dirty child): antedate 1984
muggins (card game): any information (now have evidence 1855-1994)
mukluk telegraph (word of mouth): antedate 1945, postdate 1966 (now postdated to 2000) postdate 1966 (for mukluk wireless)
multiplicatively: antedate 1914 (appears 1895 in dicts.)
mumpishly adv. (glumly, sulkily): any examples (1990 Google Usenet example found)
murder v. trans. (of an item of food or drink): antedate 1980 (now antedated to 1935)
I could murder a (curry, pint, etc.): antedate 1986 (now antedated to 1973)
Murphy's law: antedate 1956 (now antedated to 1955)
mushy peas: antedate 1981 (now antedated to 1975)
musical statues: antedate 1955
nails adj. (= hard as nails; as ‘he's nails’): any evidence
nippily: antedate 1961 (possibly used earlier by P. G. Wodehouse in unsourced quote ‘A panther could not have moved more nippily’.) (now antedated to 1932)
nit nurse: antedate 1985
noddee (person nodded at): postdate 1868 (now postdated to 2001; interdating evidence, ideally early-mid 20th century, still welcome)
noir (noun: person with black hair): postdate 1687
no-man's-land (dangerous, hostile place): antedate 1972 (now antedated to 1926)
nonblocking (non-Computing senses): any written evidence (esp. pre- 1972) (1903 evidence found)
non-homosexual n./adj.: antedate 1961 (now antedated to 1942)
op. cit. (in an English text): antedate 1883 (now antedated to 1833)
open (verb: to perform before the main act or event, as in ‘the new band were signed to open for the Beach Boys’): antedate 1969
opsit (v.: (S. Afr.) to court): postdate 1955
opsitting (n.: (S. Afr.) courting): postdate 1969
orange garden: 18th century evidence required (1723 evidence found)
Orbat (Mil., = order of battle): antedate 1990 (now antedated to 1975)
organized religion: antedate 1946 (now antedated to 1852)
orphan (fig., of a thing): interdate 1697-1936 (now interdated)
Ortonesque: antedate 1976
other half (partner): interdate 1667-1845; 1845-1975 (1667-1845 now interdated)
oudstryder (n.: (in South African English) war veteran): antedate 1942
our kid (Northern; used to or of a sibling): any pre-1980 evidence (now antedated to 1957)
outie n. (kind of navel): antedate 1973 (now antedated to 1972)
outpower (verb: outdo in power): interdate 1762-1975
outriding (n.: land suitable for riding excursions): antedate 1989
overcast (noun: in shipbuilding): any evidence (other than for the expression overcast staff) 1754 found antedate or postdate 1754 (now antedated to ?c1702)
The OED's Chief Editor assesses consultation through television (June 2006)
A story from the archives: Edith and Ellen Perronet Thompson
An article by the OED archivist, Beverley Hunt (March 2006)
The contribution of women to the OED
An article by Meraud Grant Ferguson and Jemma Best (December 2005)
A brief history of Sri Lankan English
An examination of the contribution of Sri Lankan English to the OED (Richard Boyle, September 2005)
Tracking down 'tofu': library research in the US
A US Library Researcher describes her search for antedatings in the libraries of Washington, DC. (Pamela Roper Wagner, June 2005)
OED Online for A level
An investigation of the benefits of increasing the use of OED Online among A level students. (Jessica Stevens, March 2005)
Introducing the OED Archivist
The new OED Archivist relects on her first year at OUP (Beverley Hunt, December 2004)
Life as a library researcher
An insight into this crucial aspect of the OED's work (Brigid Allen, September 2004)
19 April 2004: a day in the life of the OED
A snapshot of the OED revision project
Exotic words in the OED
The OED's treatment of words of non-European origin (Sarah Ogilvie and Joanna Tulloch, September 2003)
OED: 75 years and more
A brief history of the OED (Peter Gilliver, June 2003)
Lex in the City: reflections on a year in the North American Editorial Unit
The work of two new American editors based in New York (Madeline McDonnell and Abigail Zitin, March 2003)
J. R. R. Tolkien and the OED
Waggle to warlock: Tolkien's contribution to the OED (Peter Gilliver, June 2002)
'Doh!' before Homer: the Appeals list and the process of continuous revision
How the OED is able to incorporate readers' contributions even after a revised entry has been published (Juliet Field, March 2002)
Varieties of English: World English and the OED
The task of increasing the OED's coverage of vocabulary from the major varieties of world English (Jennie Price, June 2001)
Some recent OED releases: a tale of two treats
The OED's treatment of marzipan and marchpane in the light of new evidence (Peter Gilliver, March 2001)
The OED and its cousins
A comparison of the progress of the OED with other historical dictionaries (Edmund Weiner, December 2000)
Previous newsletters
June 2006: Editorial | Balderdash! And Piffle! | Harmless drudgery | Appeals | Interesting antedatings | Quotable quotes
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Das engl. "retrodict" = "predicting the past" kam im 17. Jh. auf und setzt sich zusammen aus lat. "retro-" = "zurück" und lat. "dicere" = "reden", "sagen".
Es kam um 1950 auf und stellt den Gegensatz zu "predict" = "vorhersagen" ("pre" und "dicere") dar.
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Diktionär, Diccionario, Dictionnaire, Dizionario, Dictionary
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Learn about the hidden and often surprising histories of and connections between English words and their non-English ancestors. Perhaps the best inexpensive etymological dictionary available today.
Ayto, John
Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins
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The most comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language - written for today's school students. Each headword entry gives the complete story of how a particular word came into the English language and evolved over time.
Synopsis
This work is trialled and tested in schools. For the first time a comprehensive dictionary of word origins will be available for all school students. Each headword entry gives a complete and fascinating story about how a particular word came into the English language and evolved over time. In addition, each headword entry includes meanings and how each word is used in context. It also includes 40 extended panels covering a range of themes like: other languages which gave vocabulary to the English language form Arabic and Australian-Aboriginal to Urdu and Yiddish; acronyms (AIDS, NATO), eponyms (Wellingtons), invented words (nylon, spoof), shortened words (photo, exam), blends (motor and hotel became motel) and folk etymology; and subjects students are interested in, ranging from food and drink, animals, sports, space, to first names and illnesses.
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Bailey, Nathaniel
Universal Etymological English Dictionary
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This is a dictionary of word origin designed to be a useful reference source for the general reader as well as an important etymological resource for the expert. It contains over 30,000 entries.
CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF ETYMOLOGY
Edited by Robert K Barnhart
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There are quite a number of books dealing with the origins of individual words, but most are highly selective in their choice of terms and they are variably reliable. (The best and most scholarly is probably John Ayto’s Dictionary of Word Origins, but I would also mention The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, which has longish articles on a small range of key words.)
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This book will be most useful to students of the language and to general readers who want more detail than can be gleaned from the average dictionary. Despite its physical size, approaching that of a desk dictionary, its scope is limited to the most common 25,000 or so words (only a small proportion of those in the average desk dictionary, though many more than in the other works cited above). Deep delvers will need to seek out a more detailed etymological work for less common terms. And its 1988 date of publication means that very recent words are excluded.
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Barnhart, Robert K. (Autor)
Concise Dictionary of Etymology
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As all lovers of language know, words are the source of our very understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Often, however, our use of language is so automatic that we neglect to consider where those words came from and what they assume. What are the implications, beyond the simple dictionary definitions, of using words such as "privilege", "hysteria", "seminal" and "gyp"? Browsing through the pages of "The Barhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology" is likeexploring the historical, political, and rhetorical wonderland of our linguistic heritage. We see the evolution of ideas, as rootword connections that now seem arbitrary are traced to schools of thought from the past. We also find an opportunity to examine how the sometimes backwards, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes illuminating ideologies built into our language affect our modern thinking. Written in a fresh, accessible style, this book provides the derivations of over 21,000 English-language words without resorting to the use of abbreviations, symbols, or technical terminology. Drawing on the most current American scholarship, and focusing onthe core words in contemporary English, "The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology" is both a diverting browse and a thinking person's Bible.
Über den Autor
Robert K. Barnhart is a respected lexicographer and author of several dictionaries, including The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology, the World Book Dictionary, the Thorndlike-Barnhart School Dictionaries and the Barnhart Dictionaries of New English.
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Which other dictionary contains 290,500 entries, 616,500 word forms, and two-and-a-half million quotations? The "Oxford English Dictionary" is regarded as "the greatest reference book ever written", and this guide provides an insight into the conventions and compilation of its Second Edition. Donna Lee Berg gives an analysis of the components of a typical entry: pronunciation; part of speech; labels indicating, for example, areas of origin or use; variants; etymology; the definition itself; and the supporting quotation paragraph. There are sections on special types of entries such as acronyms and proper names, the history of the Dictionary, and fascinating facts and figures: word with the most meanings - set (464); most quoted author - Shakespeare (29,142); earliest dated words - town & priest (both AD 601-4); S has 34,556 entries compared to X's 152.
Burchfield, Robert W.
Caught in the Web of Words
James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
Anthony Burgess
"It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth."
The Times
"A moving and dramatic story ... sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." The Times
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Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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Dr. C.T. Onions first joined the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1895. He worked on the OED, the Shorter OED, and then published his Shakespeare Glossary in 1911. A wonderful and learned scholar, he died in 1966 as the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology was going to press. Assisted by G.W.S. Friedrichsen and R.W. Burchfield, Onions created a magnificent work of erudition, with 24,000 main entries. Including their derivatives, the dictionary delves into the origins of more than 38,000 words.
For each entry, the dictionary provides the correct pronunciation, followed by a short definition, and the century and source of the word's first recording. Then come the etymological notes. Thus one learns that "froth" (an aggregation of small bubbles on liquid) was first noted in the 14th century, in Sir Gawain and the Bible, that it comes from the Old Norse frooa, and was taken from there into German (fraup) and Old English (froth). Now in its fifth printing and a standard reference for scholars, Onions's opus is still the most comprehensive etymological dictionary of English ever to be published.
Stephanie Gold
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Oxford - The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
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Where did the words "bungalow" and "assassin" derive? What did "nice" mean in the Middle Ages? How were "adder", "anger", and "umpire" originally spelt? The answers can be found in this essential companion to any popular dictionary. With over 17,000 entries, this is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to word origins available in paperback. Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, it contains a wealth of information about our language and its history.
Synopsis
This second edition of Sidney I. Landau's landmark work offers a comprehensive and completely up-to-date description of how dictionaries are researched and written, with particular attention to the ways in which computer technology has changed modern lexicography. A completely new chapter has been added and every chapter has been updated and reorganized to reflect the changes. Landau has an insider's practical knowledge of making dictionaries and every feature of the dictionary is examined and explained, with frequent examples given from the latest dictionaries of the US and Britain. A history of English lexicography is also included. The book is both practically grounded and soundly based on current lexicographic scholarship. Written in a readable style, free of jargon and unnecessary technical language, it will appeal to readers who are simply interested in dictionaries, with no specialist knowledge of the field, as well as to professional lexicographers.
Liberman, Anatoly (Autor) / Mitchell, J. Lawrence (Künstler)
An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
An Introduction
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This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman’s comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one.
In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including "man", "boy", "girl", "bird", "brain", "understand", "key", "ever", and "yet". Others are slang: "mooch", "nudge", "pimp", "filch", "gawk", and "skedaddle". Many, such as "beacon", "oat", "hemlock", "ivy", and "toad", have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, "slang", "kitty-corner", and "Jeep". They are all united by their etymological obscurity.
This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language.
“Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary.” —Bernhard Diensberg, OED consultant, French etymologies
Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone.
Synopsis
Liberman (Germanic philology, University of Minnesota) doesn't tell us the root of every word in English. Instead he picks some of the one that interest him most, like "boy", "jeep", "mooch", "fag", and "witch". His long training in the sources of words gives him the expertise to sift through centuries of theories.
Erstellt: 2010-09
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Merriam-Webster (Herausgeber)
Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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The first Edition of the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins detailed the fascinating and little known stories behind thousands of words and phrases that we use every day. In this new edition, William and Mary Morris update and expand their classic work to keep pace with our ever changing language. New entries include: "New trends" - "crack", "glitch", "greenmail", Harrier attack airplanes "Foreign terms" - "falafel", "geisha", "jihad", "paparazzi" People - "batman", "dead end kid", "Dutch uncle", "hatchet man", "Young Turks" "Given names" - "Chester", "Edith", "Jennifer" and others "Food" - "Adam and Eve on a raft", "alligator pear", "grapefruit", "Harriet Lane" "Sports" - "box score", "cheese champions", "full court press" "and many more" Throughout the Morris' s present the histories of intriguing expressions in an eminently entertaining and readable fashion.
Erstellt: 2011-06
Morton, Herbert C.
The Story of Webster's Third
Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics
Synopsis
The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove. Based on original research and interviews with the people who knew and worked with Gove, this is a human story as well as the story of the making of a dictionary. The author skilfully interweaves an account of Gove's character and working habits with the evolution of the dictionary. The reception given Webster's Third - now widely regarded as one of the greatest dictionaries of our time - illuminates public misconceptions about language and the role of dictionaries.
Mugglestone, Lynda
Lexicography and the OED
Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
(Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology)
Synopsis
Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of the first English dictionary published by Oxford. Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the first OED, as James Murray stressed, was to be founded on an unequivocal return to first principles, both in the nature of its construction and in the evidence amassed for its compilation. It also produced, as this book shows, a host of problems: on the nature of Englishness, correctness, and general standards of language use, as well as in aspects of pronunciation, semantics, and syntax. Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the particular problems posed by the attempt to realize the pioneering acts of lexicography integral to the making of the dictionary.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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Dr. C.T. Onions first joined the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1895. He worked on the OED, the Shorter OED, and then published his Shakespeare Glossary in 1911. A wonderful and learned scholar, he died in 1966 as the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology was going to press.
Assisted by G.W.S. Friedrichsen and R.W. Burchfield, Onions created a magnificent work of erudition, with 24,000 main entries. Including their derivatives, the dictionary delves into the origins of more than 38,000 words.
For each entry, the dictionary provides the correct pronunciation, followed by a short definition, and the century and source of the word's first recording. Then come the etymological notes. Thus one learns that "froth" (an aggregation of small bubbles on liquid) was first noted in the 14th century, in Sir Gawain and the Bible, that it comes from the Old Norse frooa, and was taken from there into German (fraup) and Old English (froth). Now in its fifth printing and a standard reference for scholars, Onions's opus is still the most comprehensive etymological dictionary of English ever to be published.
Stephanie Gold
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With the assistance of: Friedrichsen, G. W. S.; Unknown function: Burchfield, R. W.
Oxford dictionary editor dies
LONDON (AP) - Robert Burchfield, a daring and innovative lexicographer who was chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries from 1971 to 1984, has died at the age of 81, Oxford University Press said Tuesday.
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C.T. Onions, a former OED editor, encouraged his interest in lexicography, and Burchfield helped Onions on his Dictionary of English Etymology, published in 1966.
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7. The Oxford Dictionary of English etymology - Onions, Charles T.. - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1967
Onions, C. T. (Charles Talbut Onions), 1873–1965, English philologist, lexicographer, author, and editor. After a post with British Naval Intelligence in World War I, he held a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, and from 1927 to 1949 was a reader at Oxford. Onions served as coeditor of the Oxford English Dictionary until its completion in 1933. He also edited the two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1933, 1936, 1944) and was preparing the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology when he died. His other works include A Shakespeare Glossary (1911).
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Vollständige Neubearbeitung: Seine große Benutzerfreundlichkeit, fundierter sprachlicher Input und intuitiv bedienbare Software der Spitzenklasse machen das Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary zum idealen Lernerwörterbuch für Fortgeschrittene.
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Talk section fördert gezielt den mündlichen Ausdruck
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A brand new edition of the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and CD-ROM, that is now more user-friendly than ever.
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Lernerwörterbuch mit ca. 60.000 Stichwörtern und Wendungen. Einfacher Definitionswortschatz. Jetzt mit blauen Stichwörtern. Für Sekundarstufe I ab Klasse 9/10 und Sekundarstufe II. Format: 14,8 x 22 cm. 1.344 Seiten.
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Übersichtlich: Angaben zu Grammatik, regionalem und stilistischem Gebrauch in der bewährten Randleiste
Neu: Angabe zur Frequenz der Wörter
Berücksichtigung des amerikanischen Englisch
PONS Cobuild English Learner's Dictionary
Das bewährte einsprachig englische Wörterbuch bietet rund 60.000 Stichwörter und Wendungen unter Berücksichtigung des amerikanischen Englisch. Mit mit zahlreichen neuen Bedeutungen und neuen Wörtern ist es eine sehr gute Basis für die gezielte Wortschatzerweiterung. Verständliche Definitionen erklären in vollständigen Sätzen die verschiedenen Bedeutungen eines Stichworts. Besonders hilfreich sind die Angaben zur Aussprache, zur Grammatik sowie zum regionalen und stilistischen Gebrauch. Eine wertvolle Unterstützung für alle, die auf Englisch kommunizieren wollen.
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Reddick, Allen
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773
(Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History)
Synopsis
Following the discovery of manuscript materials, including hundreds of unpublished additions and changes, for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Allen Reddick describes the conception, composition, writing, and subsequent revision of the first great English dictionary, and the only dictionary created by a great writer. In this second edition of his acclaimed study, Reddick incorporates new commentary and scholarship, and situates The Making of Johnson's Dictionary in current critical and scholarly debate.
Kurzbeschreibung
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the English Language, defining more than 500,000 words and tracing their usage through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of literary and other sources. The text on the CD-ROM comprises the full text of the OED 2nd Edition, plus the three Additions volumes, as well as 7,000 new entries from the OED's continuing research. Most importantly, OED v4.0 on CD-ROM boasts superb search-and-retrieval software, designed specifically for the electronic version, enabling you to investigate the Dictionary in ways not possible with the print edition. Questions which might have taken years of patient research can now be answered in seconds. Existing functionality retained from earlier versions includes:
Installation to the hard drive, so the CD is not required during use of the Dictionary;
Options to customize the entry display and show or hide pronunciations, spellings, etymology, and quotation text;
Flexible full text search options, with search filters and an option to rank entries and search results alphabetically or by date. New to this version:
Now available to Mac users;
Flash-base;
Smoother and faster performance providing instantaneous search results;
New word-wheel which supports incremental letter-by-letter browsing;
7,000 new words and meanings; Windows upgrades available to registered users of Versions 2.0 upwards.
System Requirements Windows: Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 1.6GHz processor or equivalent (2GHz recommended); Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000. Macintosh: Power PC(r) G4 867MHz or faster processor; Intel Core Duo 2.13GHz or faster processor; Mac OS X v.10.4x or 10.5x. All platforms: 512MB of RAM; 1Gb free hard disk space; minimum monitor capability: 1024 x 768 pixels and high colour (16 bits per pixel, ie 65,536 colours); local CD-ROM/DVD drive (for installation); runs from hard drive only.
Amazon.com
The Oxford English Dictionary has long been considered the ultimate reference work in English lexicography. Compiled by the legendary editor James Murray and a staff of brilliant philologists and lexicographers (not to mention one homicidal maniac), the OED was originally conceived in 1857 as a four-volume set, but by the time the last volume was published in 1928, it had swelled to 10 volumes containing over 400,000 entries. In the years since, the staff of the OED has continued to keep pace with our ever-evolving language, and today the dictionary weighs in at a whopping 20 volumes. The great joy of this dictionary lies in its extensive cross-references and word etymologies, which can run a full page or more. These features not only make the OED the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the English language, but a delight to browse.
Synopsis
The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.4 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The OED has a unique historical focus. Accompanying each definition is a chronologically arranged group of quotations that trace the usage of words, and show the contexts in which they can be used. The quotations are drawn from a huge variety of sources worldwide - literary, scholarly, technical, and popular - and represent authors as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin and Isabella Beeton. Other features distinguishing the entries in the Dictionary are authoritative definitions; detailed information on pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet; listings of variant spellings used throughout each word's history; extensive treatment of etymology; and details of area of usage and of any regional characteristics. SPECIAL OFFER: you can buy the OED for GBP499 until 31 January 2007 (thereafter GBP850). Alongside the print edition is the Oxford English Dictionary Online (www.oed.com). Updated quarterly, this award winning online resource allows the Dictionary to evolve with the English language while the print edition remains as a historical record. Subscriptions are available to OED Online on an individual or institutional basis.
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The Oxford English Dictionary
Second Edition
Edited by John Simpson and Edmund Weiner
Price: £850.00 (hardback)
ISBN-10: 0-19-861186-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-861186-8
Publication date: 30 March 1989
22000 pages, 305x225 mm
A sample of this book is available in PDF format
Reviews
'The OED has been to me a teacher, a companion, a source of endless discovery. I could not have become a writer without it.-- Anthony Burgess ' -
' The greatest treasure of wordsall the raw material a writer needs for a lifetime of work.-- Annie Proulx ' -
'The Oxford English Dictionary is more than a national monument to lexicography. The vast storehouse of the words and phrases that constitute the vocabulary of the English-speaking people is the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day.-- The Times ' -
' The gigantic total picture of the English languagean epic achievement.-- The Observer ' -
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'The greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken.-- The New York Times ' -
Description
The 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary is an unrivalled guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words
The Dictionary traces the evolution of over 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world through 2.4 million quotations
Historical in focus, each of the OED 's entries contain the word's earliest known use, as well as later examples which help plot the word's subsequent development in English
Its quotations are taken from a broad range of English language sources - from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books
Elegantly designed for maximum legibility and printed to the highest standards on the finest quality paper
The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.4 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The OED has a unique historical focus. Accompanying each definition is a chronologically arranged group of quotations that trace the usage of words, and show the contexts in which they can be used. The quotations are drawn from a huge variety of sources worldwide - literary, scholarly, technical, and popular - and represent authors as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin and Isabella Beeton. Other features distinguishing the entries in the Dictionary are authoritative definitions; detailed information on pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet; listings of variant spellings used throughout each word's history; extensive treatment of etymology; and details of area of usage and of any regional characteristics. Alongside the print edition is the Oxford English Dictionary Online (www.oed.com). Updated quarterly, this award winning online resource allows the Dictionary to evolve with the English language while the print edition remains as a historical record. Subscriptions are available to OED Online on an individual or institutional basis.
Visit www.oup.com/online/oed/ for details. Buy the OED on CD-ROM and PRINT EDITION together and save 50% Standard price £1100.
Soanes, Catherine
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Synopsis
Authoritative and up to date, this eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including 900 new words. It offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, and provides hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage. New to this edition is a fascinating Word Histories feature, telling the often bizarre stories of the origins and development of 100s of words. For example, did you know that the word "grammar" is related to "glamour", or that "cockney" used to mean a "spoilt child"? This dictionary contains full appendices on topics such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language, from formal to slang, plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
From Booklist
At first glance, this appears to update Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (1977). Indeed, it does describe how the supplements to and the second edition of the OED were compiled and the ongoing work on the database today. But it is really a scholarly study of the more than two million citations in the dictionary that are used to show shades of meanings of words. Willinsky questions the authority of the OED by demonstrating how idiosyncratic the choice of citations often has been. He describes the shift in citations over time from English literature to American sources. Tables show the leading sources for citations in various editions of the dictionary - it was Shakespeare in the first edition, Shaw in the supplements.
Sandy Whiteley
Winchester, Simon
Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte
Eine wahre Geschichte
Kurzbeschreibung
Simon Winchesters erstes Buch in bibliophiler Ausstattung Simon Winchester erzählt die wahre Geschichte der außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft zwischen Professor Murray, dem Herausgeber des legendären Oxford English Dictionary, und einem sprachverliebten Mörder, der zum wichtigsten Mitarbeiter an diesem Projekt wird. Ein packender Roman über Genie, Wahnsinn und die Liebe zu den Wörtern.
"Ein brillanter Sachbuch-Roman, der sich wie ein Krimi liest."
Die Welt
Winchester, Simon
Meaning of Everything
deutscher Titel: Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Im Jahre 1857 wurde ein ungewöhnliches Projekt in London initiiert. Die englische Sprache sollte in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt in einem Wörterbuch festgeschrieben werden. Erst 70 Jahre später war das vollendet, was wir heute als "The New Oxford Dictionary of English" kennen.
Der Mann, der diese Inventur der englischen Sprache in die Hand nahm, war "Dr. James Murray", der stets vom Wissensdurst getrieben wurde, fasziniert war von Wörtern und den verschiedensten Sprachen. Mit Flugblättern suchte Murray freiwillige Helfer, die die englische Literatur nach Wörter durchforsten sollten. Einer tritt bei dieser Arbeit hervor: William Minor. Per Post versorgt er Murray mit unzähligen Wörtern.
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