Ammon Shea Quotes

The Early Dictionaries In English Were Frequently Created By A Single Author, But They Were Small Works, And Not What We Think Of Today As Dictionaries. Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, Published In 1604, Is Generally Regarded As The First English Dictionary. It Was An Impressive Feat In Many Respects, But It Contained Fewer Than 2,500 Entries, The Defining Of Which Would Not Be A Lifetime's Work. This And The Other Dictionaries Of The Seventeenth Century Were Mostly Attempts To Catalog And Define "difficult Words"; Little Or No Attention Was Given To The Nuts And Bolts Of The Language Or To Such Concerns As Etymology And Pronunciation. For

Related Authors

• Brendan Shanahan
• Dorothy Clark
• Esther Smith
• Folco Chevallier
• K.R. Dial
• Kelly McCreary
• Loyd Auerbach
• M.M. Bennetts
• Saif Ali Khan
• Scarlett Thomas
• Steve Baldwin
• Tavis Smiley

Related Topics

• Broken But Never Shattered Quotes

  I'm in a weird-ass mood today, Doc. Wired up, mind all over the place, looking for answers, reasons something solid to cling to, something real, but just when I think — Chevy Stevens

• I Want Him Back Quotes

  I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto! all set, ready to rock and roll. I — Audrey Niffenegger

• I'm Just Trying To Help Quotes

  Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can — Cheryl Ladd

• Pai Mei Quotes

  I'm Cooper Taylor. I'm a Scorpio. I enjoy women, long walks on the beach, and my roommate says I use girly shampoo. Oh, and I generally hate anyone in the — Emily Snow

• Shotgun Girl Quotes

  We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun. — Kim Newman