✦ LIBER ✦

The distribution of English dictionary word lengths

✍ Scribed by Lord Rothschild

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 650 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0378-3758
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(86)90169-2

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

✍ Pip Williams 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Affirm Press 🌐 English ⚖ 458 KB 👁 3 views

In The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams combines her talent for historical research with beautiful storytelling. She has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary and found a tale of missing words and the lives of women lived between the lines. In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' wa

Word by word: the secret life of Diction

Word by word: the secret life of Dictionaries

✍ Kory Stamper 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 324 KB 👁 3 views

**Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made --a must read for word mavens.** While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irr

The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary, a memoir

✍ John Simpson 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Basic Books; Oxford 🌐 English ⚖ 300 KB 👁 1 views

What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the _Oxford English Dictionary_ , the definitive record of the

A dictionary of the English language: an anthology

✍ Samuel Johnson 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2006 🏛 Penguin Group USA, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 623 KB 👁 2 views

Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charl

“The dictionary of old english”: A progr

“The dictionary of old english”: A progress report

✍ Leyerle, John 📂 Article 📅 1971 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 342 KB

A word from the director: The dictionary

A word from the director: The dictionary of refrigeration

✍ A Gac 📂 Article 📅 1990 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 223 KB