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The Philological Society is a member organisation of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics. [7] History. The Society's early history is most marked by a proposal in July 1857 to create an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. [8] .
In 1859, the Philological Society's Proposal for a new English dictionary was published and, on 16 January 1860, Council passed a resolution to produce a dictionary of four volumes, covering the entire English language from past to present.
The Philological Society is the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. It is also a registered charity. It was established in its present form in 1842, consisting partly of members of a society of the same name established at the University of London in 1830 'to investigate and promote ...
Jan 10, 2020 · The documents and links in this section, described in the summary commentary below, track some of the stages involved in setting up and compiling the Philological Society’s New English Dictionary (the original title of the OED). Suggestions for Further reading follow at the foot of the page. In 1857, the Society created a committee consisting ...
The Philological Society, founded in 1842, established an “Unregistered Words Committee,” but, upon hearing two papers by Richard Chenevix Trench in 1857—“On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries”—the society changed its plan to the making of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.
The Philological Society, or London Philological Society, is the oldest learned society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language as well as a registered charity. [3] The current Society was established in 1842 to "investigate and promote the study and knowledge of the structure, the affinities, and the history of languages ". [4]
In June 1857 the London Philological Society appointed three of its members, Herbert Coleridge, F. J. Furnivall and Richard Chenevix Trench, ‘as a committee to collect unregistered words in English’.
