![]() ![]() English language: Writing American Speech in 1995 I Wgested in program of special-subject(Shapiro 1995, 23-24), ofsuga historical dictionaries the In 1919, as the OED was nearing completion, one of its editors, Sir William A. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Reviews1 99 Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America Dictionary Society of North America Any of the departments of natural or social science, the humanities, I have in mind a range of subject lexicons, prepared by scholars with subject expertise on the basis of reading programs in the literatures of the various disciplines. Now that the OED2 is completed, the time may be ripe for a new program of specialized supplementary historical dictionaries. In furtherance of Craigie's plan, a Middk English Dictionary has been in progress for many decades, historical dictionaries of Scottish, American, Canadian, Jamaican, Bahamian, and Australian English have been published, and Old English, South African, New Zealand, and Trinidadian ones are underway. Craigie, proposed a scheme of period and regional dictionaries to supplement the Dictionary itself, which, despite its great size, could not possibly treat all the varieties of so extensive a language as English comprehensively (Craigie 1931). ![]() Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (review) Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (review) ![]()
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