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“Surayyá” in Dictionaries a dim. of Sarwá = moderately rich.
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This was the first general collection, and one of the best; and after this date (1674) many dialect words appeared in English Dictionaries, such as those of Elisha Coles (1676, and four subsequent editions); John
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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There are no monuments older than those collected in the handy volumes which we call Dictionaries, and those who know how to interpret those English antiquities — as you may see them interpreted, for instance, in Grimm’s Dictionary of the German, in
Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861
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McCain Sign Makers Spurn Elitist "Dictionaries" - Elitist New York media obsessives keep alerting us to the guy who cheered John McCain tonight at the Republican convention with a sign reading "THE Mavrick [sic]."
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McCain Sign Makers Spurn Elitist "Dictionaries" - Elitist New York media obsessives keep alerting us to the guy who cheered John McCain tonight at the Republican convention with a sign reading "THE Mavrick [sic]."
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DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, -- in the face of a most obstinate and inveterate opposition on the part of the proprietors of the out-of-date and worthless compilations, so called Dictionaries, printed from old stereotype plates, which have remained unaltered for years, -- has induced
The Royal Picture Alphabet John Leighton 1867
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"Dictionaries", said Samuel Johnson, "are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
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"Dictionaries" seems to be entirely original to the book, though the other material does not necessarily appear here in its original published form.
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Until the so-called Age of the Dictionaries, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when English spelling and usage were harnessed and standardized, spelling was much looser, even zanier than today.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Until the so-called Age of the Dictionaries, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when English spelling and usage were harnessed and standardized, spelling was much looser, even zanier than today.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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