The earliest book which listed English words was written by Richard Mulcaster's, called 'Elementaire' first published in 1582. Written as a pedagogical guide, an attempt to make English language and culture more respected and accessible.
The first alphabetical English- only dictionary was written by Robert Cawdrey, 'Table alphabeticall' published in 1604. It was the first single language English dictionary ever published. Listed approximately 3000 words.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary was different and considered so influences because i listed 40,000 words each defined in detial. Influenced future dictionaries.
The idea for the Oxford English Dictionary first started in 1850s, they planned to collect comprehensive middle English words, a lexicon of language more complete than any English dictionary maker had ever attempted.
The advantages of the English Dictionary Online is easy to use and updated often. The words 'gay' used to mean happy, joyful etc. But over recent years the meaning has shifted, in 2003 records new slang sense which is now commonly used by UK teenagers as homosexual. First citation of slang meaning from the US in 1978. Most recently entries has negative connations less assosated with homosexuality
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