Reviews articles by Allen Walker Read and Merriam-Webster's Editor-in-Chief Gove on dictionaries. Problems discussed are boundaries of the lexicon, regional usage, commercial dictionaries, ordering of lexemes, establishing meaning, providing grammatical information, semantics, and editorial bias. (MSE)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

Reviews work in lexicology under the headings of General Studies, Special Vocabularies. Registering Neologisms, Analysis and Interpretation, and Prospects. Journal Availability: see FL 511 726. (KM)

An account of the dictionaries, great and small, of the English-speaking world is given in this book. Subjects covered include the origin of English dictionaries, early dictionaries, Noah Webster and his successors to the present, abridged dictionaries, "The Oxford English Dictionary" and later dictionaries patterned after it, the…

In this unit on the dictionary, for the eighth grade, sample worksheets and discussion questions employing excerpts from various dictionaries (e.g., "English Dictionary 1775,""Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, 1604,""Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary." and "Webster's Third International Dictionary") both…

Surveys primarily the more important English dictionaries written by American scholars or edited and published in the U.S. Canadian and Caribbean English dictionaries are dealt with secondarily. Available from University of Alabama Press, Periodicals Department, Drawer 2877, University, Alabama 35486. (KM)

This dictionary is designed to provide an inventory of English usage in the Caribbean environment and lifestyle as known and spoken in each territory but not recorded in the standard British and American desk dictionaries. It cross-references different names for the same item throughout the anglophone Caribbean, identifies different items called…

This workbook, intended to supplement courses in the development of the English language, is based on the belief that knowledge of a language's development is best obtained by working with samples of the language in its various historical stages and linguistic branches. Material covered includes (1) facts, assumptions, and misconceptions about…

This article describes a project-oriented approach to teaching language awareness at the college freshman level. It is emphasized that it is important for students to realize that language is dynamic and that it changes because people change. The study of slang can make the student aware of the changeableness of a living language. Students were…