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- In 1857, a proposal was put before the Philological Society, a London-based organization devoted to the scholarly study of language. The proposal addressed the deficiency of existing English language dictionaries and called for the compilation of a New English Dictionary (as it was originally called).
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Apr 9, 2020 · The Philological Society of London decided they needed a better dictionary — one that documented every single word in the English language — and appealed to the Oxford University Press to fund it.
- Anna Kelsey-Sugg
Dictionary Milestones. 1857 At the suggestion of Frederick J. Furnivall, the Philological Society of London establishes ‘a Committee to collect unregistered words in English’. Richard Chenevix Trench delivers a paper On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries to the Society.
In 1857, a proposal was put before the Philological Society, a London-based organization devoted to the scholarly study of language. The proposal addressed the deficiency of existing English language dictionaries and called for the compilation of a New English Dictionary (as it was originally called).
Oct 24, 2016 · The origins of the Oxford English Dictionary, and indeed its fortunes for much of the period when its first edition was compiled, were so closely bound up with the Philological Society that it is hardly surprising that it was long known in some quarters as ‘the Society’s Dictionary’.
- Lucas Reilly
- The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was built on volunteer labor. When the London Philological Society came up with the idea for a new dictionary of the English language in 1857, the editors decided it was necessary to enlist the help of the public and asked avid readers to send examples of sentences that could illuminate the meanings of different words.
- It took more than 70 years to complete the first edition of the OED. Originally, the Philological Society predicted that the dictionary would take about 10 years to complete.
- The OED started out messy. Very messy. Frederick Furnivall, one of the dictionary’s founders, was a visionary—but that vision did not extend to his organizational skills.
- OED co-founder Frederick Furnivall was a controversial figure. After founding a controversy-riddled Shakespeare Society, Furnivall fell into a six-year feud with the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Aug 25, 2016 · It explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary emerged as a new concept in the lexicography of English, and traces the process of bringing this concept to fruition, from the first attempts to collect quotation evidence in the 1850s, under the auspices of the Philological Society of London ...
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]
