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There’s been a dearth of dictionary links around here since ex-Ninja Pete left. That and font news. I beg your forgiveness and will work to rectify this egregious breach of trust with my readership. For now: the first English dictionary.
Available now as The First English Dictionary, 1604 (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), the work was originally published under the title A Table Alphabeticall. It was compiled in the late 16th century by one Robert Cawdrey. The book did not bring him fame or fortune, but it went through at least two revised editions within a decade. That suggests there must have been a market for Cawdrey’s guide to what the title page called the “hard usuall English wordes” that readers sometimes encountered “in Scripture, Sermons, or elswhere.”
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