A Table Alphabeticall is the abbreviated title of the first monolingual dictionary in English, created by Robert Cawdrey and first published in London in 1604.Although the work is important in being t ...
Educational achievements In 1561 he became the first headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, where he wrote his two treatises on education, Positions (1581) and Elementarie (1582). Merchant ...
Dictionarius is a short work written about the year 1200 by the medieval English grammarian Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland. For the use of his students at the University of Paris, he lists t ...
Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) is a dictionary published by the Swedish Academy, with the official title Ordbok ?ver svenska spr?ket utgiven av Svenska Akademien. This dictionary is the Swedish co ...
The main aims of linguistic prescription are to specify standard language forms either generally (what is Standard English?) or for specific purposes (what style and register is appropriate in, for ex ...
Konrad Duden In 1872, Konrad Duden, headmaster of a Gymnasium (secondary school) in Schleiz, Thuringia, published a German dictionary called the Schleizer Duden, the first Duden. In 1880 he published ...
Ars lectoria ecclesiae, sive Accentarium (c. 1248)Commentaria in Doctrinali Alexandri de Villa-DeiCommentarius (1246)Compendium grammaticae; Clavis compendii (c. 1234)Composita verborumDe mysteriis ec ...
History and features The author shows his specific understanding of the Russian language on the cover, using the old spelling Толковый словарь живаго великорускаго я ...
His father was a Danish physician named Johan Christian von Dahl (1764 – October 21, 1821). He was a linguist versed in German, English, French, Russian, Yiddish, Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages. H ...
The WNT follows the formula of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Deutsches W?rterbuch in being a historical dictionary whose entries are based on primary sources of actual usage.Its impetus was t ...
The Dictionnaire de la langue fran?aise by ?mile Littré, commonly called simply the "Littré", is a four-volume dictionary of the French language published in Paris by Hachette.The dictionary was o ...
Littré was born in Paris. His father, Michel-Fran?ois Littré, had been a gunner and, later, a sergeant-major of marine artillery in the French navy who was deeply imbued with revolutionary ideas of ...
Born at Sebenico (?ibenik), which was in quick succession under Venetian, Napoleonic and Habsburg domain, Tommaseo was culturally and ethnically Italian, but expressed also genuine interest in the Il ...
Syed Ahmed Khan (1817–1898) is often considered the founder of the modernist movement within Islam, noted for his application of "rational science" to the Quran and Hadith and his conclusion that the ...
In Arabic the word ?adīth (Arabic: ????? ?adīth IPA: ) means a "report, account, or narrative". The Arabic plural is ?a?ādīth (??????) (IPA: ). Hadith also refers to the speech of a ...
