English dictionary

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ultimate dictionary authority today

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Oxford English Dictionary

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the science of dictionary making

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lexicography

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believed that language change was the result of language corruption

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language purists

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a record of the way in which language is actually used

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descriptive method

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Dictionary of the English Language

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Johnson’s dictionary

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attempts to slow or halt language change

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language fixing

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American Dictionary of the English Language

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Webster’s dictionary

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scholars who set standards for how language should be used

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grammarians

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a record of scholarly opinion regarding how language should be used

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prescriptive method

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the use of literary texts to establish context for definitions of words

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historical method

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the history of a word

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etymology

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grammarian’s attempt to keep the language from “decaying.”

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Johnson’s dictionary

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set a standard for American English.

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Webster’s dictionary

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represented the language of an educated elite.

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Johnson’s dictionary

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set a standard for British English.

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Johnson’s dictionary

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represented the language of a broad base of educated people

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Webster’s dictionary

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first to make wide-spread use of etymology.

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Webster’s dictionary

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first to use the historical method

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Johnson’s dictionary

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descriptions of the “status” of a word, usually in abbreviated form (archaic, obsolete, regional, nonstandard, slang)

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usage

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the accepted meaning of a word

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definition

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the function of the word in a sentence

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part of speech

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the “history” of a word, beginning with the earliest language to which it can be traced

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etymology

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the word as it appears in other forms, correctly spelled

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alternate forms

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a date marking the first known appearance of the word in a written text

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earliest recorded use

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the word itself as it should be spelled

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entry word

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words meaning the same or nearly the same thing as the entry word

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synonyms

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the word as it should be pronounced

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respelling