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NATHANIEL BAILEY
- pioneer lexicographer
- Universal Etymological English Dictionary
- popular, large, comprehensive, sold well
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709 – 1784)
- added his own ideas, sophisticated definitions
- not to form but register the language
NOAH WEBSTER (1758 – 1843)
- An American Dictionary of the English Language
hoped to standardize American speech (Americans in different parts of the country spelled,
pronounced and used English words differently
- spelling reformer (introduced American English spellings, e.g. color, center)
- after his death: Meriam-Webster, 1990s – Random House publishing house
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• JAMES MURRAY (1837 -1915)
editor and father of The new English Dictionary,
Oxford English Dictionary (12 volumes) – records the history of the
language from historical times
• JOSEF EMANUEL MOUREK (1846 – 1911)
Czech pioneer in English dictionary making
contributed to Ottův slovník naučný
the first English-Czech Dictionary (1896)
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TYPES OF DICTIONARIES
1 General dictionaries: (publishing houses)
(OUP, CUP, The Random House, Merriam-Webster‘s, Longman, Collins)
2 Specialized dictionaries – language:
(synonyms, idioms and phrasal verbs, collocations, neologism,
pronunciation, etymology, frequency, slang, dialects, catch phrases)
3 Specialized dictionaries – learner‘s dictionaries:
OALD, OLDAE, LDCE, CCD, CALD (level C1-C2), word builders, w. finders
4 Thesauruses:
Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, Roget‘s International Thesaurus,
Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English)
Others: dictionaries for research (database), professional dictionary (business)
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CZECH DICTIONARIES OF ENGLISH
Poldauf: Velký česko-anglický slovník (1997)
Fronek: Anglicko-český a česko-anglický slovník (2004)
Heis, Hodek: Velký Anglicko-český slovník (2000)