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In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), H. W. Fowler states that applying the word nigger to " others than full or partial negroes " is " felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity "; but the second edition ( 1965 ) states: " N. has been described as ' the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks.
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According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.
The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought ( 2003 ).
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The Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan describes it as a colloquial term to refer to a member of the Unification Church.
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2005 ), The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2007 ), and The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English ( 2008 ) give a secondary meaning as " any blind, unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy.
Rand is not found in the comprehensive academic reference texts The Oxford Companion to Philosophy or The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, but is the subject of entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers.
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music.
* A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew
According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations.
* A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 – 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.
To its users, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is informally known by the names Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage, Fowler, and Fowler ’ s.
In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler ’ s general approach encourages a direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms.
Moreover, like most practical guides to writing and speaking a language, the linguistics of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage mix the prescriptive and the descriptive, which allows grammatical extremists to ascribe H. W.
Widely and often cited, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is renowned for its witty passages, such as:
The title page of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 )
Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.
The first edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ) was much reprinted ; thus, a reprint wherein the copyright page indicates 1954, as the most recent reprinting year, also notes that the 1930 and 1937 reprintings were " with corrections ".
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.
* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.
" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.
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* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".
Others, such as the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, define it as the " English language as it spoken and written in England.
Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Young currently supports Creative Commons, the Public Knowledge Project, the Dictionary of Old English, the Internet Archive, ibiblio, the NCSU eGames, and the Bald Head Island Conservancy, among others.
The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:
* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).
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Since 2008, he has chaired the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and wrote the essay on usage for the Fifth Edition of the Dictionary, which was published in 2011.
Historically, the substantive and editorial differences among the first-edition and the third-edition versions is that the former, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), is a prescriptive style guide to clear and expressive writing, whilst the latter versions, The New Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 1996 ) and Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 2004 ), are descriptive usage guides to spoken and written English.
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( Oxford Language Classics Series ).
A Dictionary of American-English Usage Based on Fowler's Modern English Usage.
* Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage.
Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage provides an early example of the rule: " All signs of punctuation used with words in quotation marks must be placed.
" Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage translates Yi as " Anc barbarian tribe on east border, any border or foreign tribe.
" Toff, who is also an editor for Oxford University Press, describes in some detail the etymology of words for " flute ," comparing OED, Fowler's Modern English Usage, Evans ' Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, and Copperud's American Usage and Style: The Consensus before arriving at her conclusion: " I play the flute, not the flaut ; therefore I am a flutist not a flautist.
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