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Felix Holt: The Radical

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3.72 avg rating — 4,348 ratings — published 1866 — 461 editions
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The Oxford History of English

3.90 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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Dictionaries: A Very Short ...

3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
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Lost for Words: The Hidden ...

3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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"Talking Proper": The Rise ...

4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
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Lexicography and the OED: P...

3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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Samuel Johnson and the Jour...

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Writing a War of Words: And...

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Samuel Johnson: The Arc of ...

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New Essays on Samuel Johnso...

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“A national language is a national tie’, Noah Webster”
Lynda Mugglestone, Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

“(‘A clever stratagem or plan intended to deceive or trick’; ‘Smaller; inferior; minor’, the respective definitions in Chambers Concise Dictionary state). Information on spelling is similar, based on evidence rather than opinion. The dictionary as reference book sorts out with ease the unintentional influence of homophones (as in the inadvertent use of baited breath rather than bated breath, of flare when flair was intended, or the different semantic territories of Viking hordes and Viking hoards).”
Lynda Mugglestone, Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

“How can there be a true History, when we see no man living is able to write truly the History of the last week?’, as Sir Will demands in Thomas Shadwell’s play The Squire of Alsatia (1688)”
Lynda Mugglestone, Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction



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