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Lexicography as a science of dictionary-making

The largest dictionary in the world is "het Woordenboek der Nederlansche Taal (WNT)" (the Dictionary of the Dutch language). It took 134 years to create the dictionary (1864 - 1998). It consists of approximately 400,000 words on 45805 pages in 92000 columns.

A Brief History of English Lexicography

(1) Latin and French Glossaries
Year	Author /Editor	Dictionary	Size /Type
1440	Parvulorum	Storehouse [of words] for children or clerics	English-Latin
1476	Caxton	Printing in England	English-Latin
1480	Caxton	French-English Glossary	French-English
1499	Caxton	Promptorium	"hard words"
1500	Hortus Vocabularum	Garden of Words	Latin-English
1533	John Withals	A Short Dictionary for Yong Beginners	English-Latin
1538	Sir Thomas Elyot	Dictionary (Bibliotheca Eliotae)	Latin-English
1565	Thomas Cooper	Thesaurus of the Roman Tongue and the British	French-English
(2) Early English Dictionaries: The Seventeenth Century
Year	Author /Editor	Dictionary	Size /Type
1552	Richard Huloet	Abecedarium Anglo-Latinum	English-Latin-(Fr.)
1582	Richard Mulcaster	Elementary	8,000 words
1588	Thomas Thomas	Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et Anglicanae	Latin-English
1598	John Florio	A World of Words	Italian-English
1604	Robert Cawdrey	A Table Alphabetical	2,500 words
1616	John Bullokar	An English Expositor	5,000 words
1623	Henry Cockeram	The English Dictionary	3 parts
1656	Thomas Blount	Glossographia
1658	Edward Phillips	The New World of English Words
1673	Thomas Blount	A World of Errors Discovered in the New World of Words
1676	Elisha Coles	An English Dictionary	25,000 words
(3) The Beginning of Modern Dictionary Practice: The Eighteenth Century
Year	Author /Editor	Dictionary	Size /Type
1702	John Kersey	A New English Dictionary	28,000 words
1704	John Harris	An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
1706	John Kersey	Philips's New World of English Words	38,000 words
1721	Nathan Bailey	An Universal Etymological English Dictionary	40,000 words
1727	Nathan Bailey	An Universal Etymological English Dictionary Volume II	2 parts
1728	Ephraim Chambers	An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
1730	Nathan Bailey	Dictionarium Britannicum	48,000 words
1747	Samuel Johnson	Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
1749	Benjamin Martin	Lingua Britannica Reformata
1755	Samuel Johnson	A New Universal English Dictionary	40,000 words
(4) Dictionaries of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Year	Author /Editor	Dictionary
1757	James Buchanan	Linguae Britannicae
1764	William Johnston	Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary
1764	John Entick	Spelling Dictionary
1773	William Kenrick	A New Dictionary of the English Language
1780	Thomas Sheridan	A General Dictionary of the English Language
1783	Noah Webster	The American Spelling Book
1791	John Walker	Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
1818	Henry Todd	Johnson's Dictionary
1820	Albert Chalmers	Todd-Johnson with Walker's Pronunciations
1828	Joseph E. Worcester	Chalmers's Dictionary
1828	Noah Webster	An American Dictionary of the English Language
1830	Joseph Worcester	Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language
1837	Charles Richardson	A New Dictionary of the English Language (cf. OED)
1841	Noah Webster	An American Dictionary of the English Language new edition
1846	Joseph Worcester	Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language
1857	Richard Chenevix Trench	Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries (cf. OED)
1860	Joseph Worcester	A Dictionary of the English Language
1864	Noah Porter	A Dictionary of the English Language
1882	Charles Annandale	The Century Dictionary
1890	George and Charles Merriam	International Dictionary
1893	Funk & Wagnalls	Standard Dictionary of the English Language
(5) Dictionaries of the 20th Century
Year	Author /Editor	Dictionary
1909	George and Charles Merriam	International Dictionary
1913	Funk & Wagnalls	New Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1927		The New Century Dictionary
1928		Oxford English Dictionary
1934		Webster's New International Dictionary
1938	Irving Lorge & Edward Thorndike	A Semantic Count of English Words
1947		American College Dictionary
1947	Funk & Wagnalls	New College Standard
1953	David Guralnik & Joseph Friend	Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language
1961	Philip Babcock Gove	Webster's Third New International Dictionary
1963	Philip Babcock Gove	Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
1966	Random House	The Random House Dictionary of the English Language
1968	Random House	Random House Dictionary, College Edition (Random House College Dictionary)
1969		American Heritage Dictionary
1973		Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
1983		Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

2. Dictionary: notion, functions, classification, components

If we speak about the dictionary as a linguistic term, it is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. Many dictionaries also provide pronunciation information; grammatical information; word derivations, histories, or etymologies; illustrations; usage guidance; and examples in phrases or sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book, but more and more dictionaries are produced as software runs from electronic PDA or a general purpose computer. Most dictionaries are produced by lexicographers.

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