LIN200H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Phonetics, Reinforcement, Baby Talk
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First english dictionaries in the 17th century were lists of hard words . 1702 john kersey"s new english dictionary first attempt at complete list of vocabulary including ordinary words like tree and have. Oed put together over period of seventy years (1858-1928), 13 volumes, 414, 000 entries organized to illustrate history and development of each word since time of king alfred (899 ad) Dictionaries list words (incl. compound words), prefixes and suffixes, abbreviations, and lexicalized (i. e. idiomatic) phrases (e. g. lexicalized (i. e. idiomatic) phrases (e. g. trial and errori) Many also list proper names, including famous people and geographical place names. Each entry begins with spelling and syllabification of word followed by pronounciation and definition. Etymology of word may appear at beginning/end of entry, definitions are numbered with closely related definitions under a single number (e. g. 1a, 1b), while distinct meanings are listed under separate numbers. Definitions organized by syntactic category (e. g. v, n, adj. etc. )
