The History of English Dictionaries

An amusing video by The Open University on the history of dictionaries and the journey of standarlization of English spelling:

The British Library , an organisationestablished by the British Parliament in 1972 - and which incorporated the British Library Museum - has...

One of the main difficulties in studying the history of English dictionaries is establishing the origins of the first English dictionaries. ...

Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall , published in 1604, was the first single-language English dictionary ever published. With 130 pag...

On researching the history of dictionaries, you will probably come across references of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Lang...

If you Google " first American dictionary ", you will get various indications that Noah Webster’s dictionary holds the title. But ...

Noah Webster (1758-1843) is said to have coined the term “American English”. Born into an average colonial American farming Family, he was ...

The year was 1857 and the Philological Society of London was dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries. An "Unregistered Word...

In this video, lexicographer Erin McKean discusses the profession of lexicographer and the future of dictionaries in a very humorous way . ...

Cambridge Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Link to Cambridge University Press dictionaries for learners of English. Users may r...

Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/cawdrey/cawdrey0.html#d An online transcription organi...