 Dictionaries," which leaves no important portion of the subject unnoticed. I. We may begin then by stating that, according to our view, the first requirement of every lexicon is, that it should contain every word occurring in the literature of the language...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 3691859Full view - About this book
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1857 - 336 pages
...I. We may begin then by stating that, according to our view, the first requirement of every lexicon is, that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. We entirely repudiate the theory, which converts the lexicographer into an arbiter of style, and leaves... | |
 | Herbert Coleridge - 1859 - 180 pages
...I. We may begin then by stating that, according to our view, the first requirement of every lexicon is, that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. We entirely repudiate the theory, which converts the lexicographer into an arbiter of style, and leaves... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench, Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1859 - 48 pages
...I. We may begin then by stating that, according to our view, the first requirement of every lexicon is, that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. We entirely repudiate the theory, which converts the lexicographer into an arbiter of style, and leaves... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...words. ' According to our view (say the framers of the proposal) the first requirement of every lexicon is that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate.' It is not merely what may be called ordinary English that comes within the range of the programme.... | |
 | Thomas Hallam (philologist.) - 1882 - 30 pages
...for readers. In the prospectus the promoters contended that the first requirement of every lexicon is, that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. They repudiated the theory, which converts the lexicographer into an arbiter of style, and leaves it... | |
 | Tony Crowley - 1996 - 228 pages
...issue: We may begin by asserting that, according to our view, the first requirement of every lexicon is that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. (ibid.: 2) What this presupposes, of course, is the existence of a clearly demarcated concept of what... | |
 | Jennifer Pearson - 1998 - 268 pages
...in the Preface to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary: I. The first requirement of every lexicon is that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. IV. In the treatment of individual words, the historical principle will be uniformly adopted. Johnson... | |
 | Lynda Mugglestone - 2000 - 306 pages
...of the OED (Craigie and Onions 1933: p. viii): Principle I: The first requirement of every lexicon is that it should contain every word occurring in...literature of the language it professes to illustrate. Principle IV: In the treatment of individual words the historical principle will be uniformly adopted.... | |
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