CLA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oxford English Dictionary, Noah Webster, Robert Cawdrey
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The urra-hubullu (in the louvre) (2300 bce) mesopotamia. Sources: books he consider worth reading (shakespeare, bible, etc. ) After the revolution he wrote a dictionary that would be an american standard . An independent nation needed its own dictionary. A compendious dictionary of the english language (1806) An american dictionary of the english language (1828)z. Most comprehensive english dictionary in the world. Volunteers sent in words and quotations using them on slips of paper. Originally commission in 1857 (expected to take 10 years) Since then the dictionary is an online entity that is constantly updated. Access the oed through the uc davis library library. ucdavis. edu->databases->oxford english dictionary->view database. International dictionaries seek to cover english of english speakers over the world. Prescriptive dictionaries give advice on how to use words. Objectively, no english generate by a native speaker is incorrect. All native speakers of a language follow rules. Privileged people are thought to have better rules. Descriptive dictionaries do not judge language (oed)
