Essays on Language and UsageLeonard Fellows Dean, Kenneth George Wilson Oxford University Press, 1959 - 335 pages |
Contents
HAROLD WHITEHALL The Development of the English Dictionary | 5 |
SAMUEL JOHNSON Preface to the Dictionary 1755 | 15 |
MATHEWS Meanings and Etymologies | 35 |
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