Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kipper on a street in York, England, on May 4, 2006. Kipper the Dog is a character in a series of books for preschool-age children by British writer Mick Inkpen.The books consist of 34 titles (as of July 2005), which have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into over 20 languages.
Before Samuel Johnson's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...
Kipper is a British preschool animated children's television series based on the characters from Mick Inkpen's Kipper the Dog picture book series. [1] Seventy-eight episodes were produced. [ 2 ] The videos have won awards including a BAFTA award for best children's animation.
His best known work, however, is his Irish–English dictionary, Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla, which was first published in 1904. [4] The stock and plates of the dictionary were destroyed during the Easter Rising of 1916, so Dinneen took the opportunity to expand the dictionary.
A Song of the English illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1914. A Song of the English (1909), with W. Heath Robinson (illustrator) Rewards and Fairies (1910) A History of England (1911), non-fiction, with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher; Songs from Books (1912) As Easy as A.B.C. (1912), science-fiction short story; The Fringes of the Fleet (1915 ...
The dictionary increased in size with every succeeding edition, until the fourth edition in 1617 defined 3,264 words. The only surviving copy is found at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reference Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, but not by name, in the first paragraph of the Historical Introduction.
Johnson's dictionary was not the first English dictionary, nor even among the first dozen. Over the previous 150 years more than twenty dictionaries had been published in England, the oldest of these being a Latin-English "wordbook" by Sir Thomas Elyot published in 1538. The next to appear was by Richard Mulcaster, a headmaster, in 1583 ...