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Dialect recording in Wark, Northumberland
Lenihan, J M A
30 May 1939
[Side 1] Douglas supplies pronunciations of list of prompt words; brief conversation between Douglas and George about recording Wark dialect for posterity. [Side 2] George recites the story of the lit...
The play grammar, or, The elements of grammar explained in easy games
Corner, Miss (1798-1875)
[18--?]
The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles (v.1)
Little, William (1848-1922); Fowler, H W (1858-1933); Coulson, Jessie (1903-1987); Onions, C T (1873-1965)
1933
"An abridgement officially authorized by the Delegates of the Oxford University press of A new English dictionary on historical principles, later known as The Oxford English dictionary."--Pref.
The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles (v.2)
Little, William (1848-1922); Fowler, H W (1858-1933); Coulson, Jessie (1903-1987); Onions, C T (1873-1965)
1933
"An abridgement officially authorized by the Delegates of the Oxford University press of A new English dictionary on historical principles, later known as The Oxford English dictionary."--Pref.
Dictionarium scoto-celticum : a dictionary of the Gaelic language; comprising an ample vocabulary of Gaelic words,... with their signification and various meanings in English and Latin, ... and vocabularies of Latin and English words with their translation into Gaelic. To which are prefixed, an introduction explaining the nature, objects and sources of the work, and a compendium of Gaelic grammar (v.1)
MacLeod, John (1841); Maclachlan, Ewen (1773-1822); Irvine, Alexander of Little Dunkeld; Macdonald, Alexander (1755-1837); Mackay, Mackintosh (1800-1873); Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
1828
Compiled by John Macleod, with the assistance of Ewen Maclachlan, Alexander Irvine and Alexander Macdonald.
Dictionarium scoto-celticum : a dictionary of the Gaelic language; comprising an ample vocabulary of Gaelic words,... with their signification and various meanings in English and Latin, ... and vocabularies of Latin and English words with their translation into Gaelic. To which are prefixed, an introduction explaining the nature, objects and sources of the work, and a compendium of Gaelic grammar (v.2)
MacLeod, John (1841); Maclachlan, Ewen (1773-1822); Irvine, Alexander of Little Dunkeld; Macdonald, Alexander (1755-1837); Mackay, Mackintosh (1800-1873); Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
1828
Compiled by John Macleod, with the assistance of Ewen Maclachlan, Alexander Irvine and Alexander Macdonald.
Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary : whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c., divided into fiftie two sections : with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs, (consisting of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three... : more over, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto ... : lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity
Howell, James (1594?-1666); Grismond, John; Bee, Cornelius
1660
Half-title page reads: Howell's dictionary. Engraved illustrated frontispiece. Part [2], "A particular vocabulary, or nomenclature...[etc.]", bears imprint "London, printed by Thomas Leach, 1659"....
Minshaei emendatio, vel à mendis expurgatio, seu augmentatio sui Ductoris in linguas, The guide into tongues : Cum illarum harmonia, & etymologijs, originationibus, rationibus, & deriuationibus in omnibus his nouem linguis, viz. 1. Anglica. 2. Belgica. 3. Germanica. 4. Gallica. 5. Italica. 6. Hispanica. 7. Latina. 8. Græca. 9. Hebræa
Minsheu, John; Haviland, John (fl. 1613-1638)
1627
Signatures: pi² A-2H⁶ 2I⁴. First edition published 1617 under title: Hēgemōn eis tas glōssas, id est Ductor in linguas, The gvide into tongves (STC 17944); subsequent editions became known a...