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Those people writing -before- dictionaries were invented, must have had a
real tough time....
Roger.
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Really my point, Roger -- I'm not sure what good dictionaries are other than
for dealing with Past Time.
I mean, try the origin of +gonzo journalism+ in EVERY current dictionary.
They usually get the meaning (mostly) right, but none of them seem to know
where it originated ***. Makes you want to weep, really.
Robin
(I picked up an in-flight magazine when I was flying back from the States
once, and there it was. Guy who wrote _Fear and Loathing in LA_, I think.)
Oh ...
The ones collated in the EMEDD are:
John Palsgrave (English/French): 1530
Bartholomew Traheron (English medical): 1543
William Turner (English herbal): 1548
William Thomas (Italian/English): 1550
Richard Mulcaster (English word-list): 1582
Thomas Thomas (Latin/English): 1587
Edmund Coote (English hard-word): 1596
John Florio (Italian-English): 1598
John Minsheu (Spanish/English): 1599
Robert Cawdrey (English hard-word): 1604, 1617
Randle Cotgrave (French-English): 1611
John Bullokar (English hard-word): 1616
Henry Cockeram (English hard-word): 1623
Thomas Blount (English): 1656
John Garfield (English scientific): 1657
Does no one except me play around there? It's fun(ny), and free-access.
( http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/emedd.html#bib )
Robin
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