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It’s an English-Latin dictionary, first English, then several Latin equivalents.
Attributed to Galfridus Grammaticus (Geoffrey the Grammarian), a Dominican monk in Norfolk.
Printed in 1499 (printing was introduced in England in 1476). It contains 12.000 entries. Written in the dialect of East Anglia. -
The brief history of English Lexicography from 1440 to 1933.
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It's a Latin-English dictionary. First to use the word ‘dictionary’.
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A table Alphabeticall containing and teaching the true meaning and understanding of hard English words, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or French and &. With the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen, or any other unskilfull persons.
Generally considered the first English-English dictionary.
It’s a dictionary of hard words and contains 2.500 entries. -
(J.K. believed to be the initials of John Kersey, because he’s the author of other dictionaries of about the same time).
First English Dictionary to include common words as well as ‘hard’ ones (28.000 entries). -
(48.000 entries).
Used by Samuel Johnson as a working base for his own dictionary. -
Publishes his Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, addressed to Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield, who awarded him ₤10.
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His A Dictionary of the English Language is published in 2 volumes.
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His first full-scale lexicographic work is Compendious Dictionary of the English Dictionary, published in 1806. It contained 40.600 headwords.
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In 1810, Webster announced his project to make an all-American dictionary in his Prospectus of a New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language. The Dictionary, titled American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 in two volumes, with 70.000 headwords.
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The Philological Society decided that it was necessary to update past dictionaries (Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language and Richardson’s A New Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1837) and accommodate their etymologies to the new philological principles.
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James Murray, a teacher at Mill Hill School in North London and a member of the Philological Society accepted and in 1878, he was officially appointed editor.
James A.H. Murray - the main editor of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, later re-titled The Oxford English Dictionary (OED). -
Re-titled The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in 12 volumes plus a Supplement was published, edited by Robert Burchfield. It contained 252.259 entries.
