
*wala hlaupan, and record a probable etymology. Wartburg, Franzosisches Etymologisches Worterbuch, xvii (Lieferung 103 īasle 1966), 484-6, s.v. ForĮxample, gallop and wallop: it would have been easy to follow W. 'Guide' does not tell the user that that is the policy). Wise not to go beyond the immediate etymon for loanwords (though the Hesitation is wise in etymological matters. Weisweiler,īusse (Halle, 1930), especially the 'Tabelle', p. The etymological relationship is clearly laid out by J. Have been thought even less acceptable had it been hesitant now, since The New SOED shows no such hesitation indeed, it might Some hesitation as it gave the probable etymological relationship ofīoot and better. Studies, x (1934), 85-93, he singled out for special censure theĬautious treatment of etymologies, and among them that SOED expressed Wyld reviewed the first edition of SOED in Review of English The virtually obsolete noun boot 'good, advantage' providesĪn excellent example of how etymologies are treated in the New SOED. Renaissance) rather than contradicted them. Pronunciations and provided statistics for them (for example, forįormidable, harass(ment), and, less clearly and without statistics, Have confirmed the pronunciations as given in the New SOED, and for someĭebated pronunciations would have under-pinned the ranging of variant Pronunciations in the New SOED, but my impression is that Wells would Wells's Pronunciationĭictionary, published in 1991, was probably too late to be used for the Or more of his revisions of Daniel Jones's famous English Gimson is to be found in the bibliography, evidence that one Notation, which goes back to an age before the International PhoneticĪlphabet had been devised. Introductory 'Guide', is no longer presented in Murray's The pronunciation, the subject of another excellent section of the 'date ranges' in the 'Guide to the Use of the The matter is admirably stated in terms of

The nature of the printed evidence or, before printing, of the Insufficiently refined for such exactness, nor is exact chronology in Possible source of error the bibliography of OED was often

Lexicographical point of view the apparent chronological precision ofįirst, subsequent, and, for obsolete words, last use was always a Sense or in all senses) was first used even quotations are no longer Precise dates are no longer given for when a word (in some particular In the provision of dating, and in the arrangement of senses andĬitations, but much of the thinking is new, practical, better andĬlearer than OED, though, of course, on a smaller scale. Principles' are retained in the title of the New SOED and, broadly, The end of the twentieth century, no dictionary could be whollyĭerivative and remain intellectually respectable. Lexicographical monument of a grand nineteenth-century conception. Onions's Shorter was sixty years earlier. It is no longer merely aĭerivative of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles laterĬalled The Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, as C. Lesley Brown's New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is aĭistinguished lexico-graphical achievement. APA style: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 2 vols.The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 2 vols." Retrieved from
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