Titlebook: Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries; The Old-Word Traditi Johan Kerling Book 1979 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1979 Chaucer.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0183-0portance of Skinner to the present study lies in the fact that his selection influenced later English lexicographical works, and in that later English lexicographers turned to Skinner, rather than to Speght. Yet through Skinner they kept making use of Speght.

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Introductionhe publication of all English dictionaries, and they had a considerable influence on them. This influence is evident from the large number of Speghtian old words included in English dictionaries down to 1721. These old words and their source have hitherto received hardly any attention.

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Thomas Speght and His Glossaries to Chaucer’s Works (1598, 1602) difficult to read: apart from explicit statements to that effect, there is also the indirect evidence for this in the appearance of marginal and interlinear glosses in Chaucerian MSS., and most convincingly in the publication of an edition of Chaucer with an extensive glossary.

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Edward Phillips:, (1658)and Cockeram’s. The principles behind his selection are difficult to detect; this is illustrated by the fact that he also included words which he marked as ‘Chaucerian’ (while many of his ‘old’ words were also from Chaucer) and by the fact that in later editions of his dictionary published during hi

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Stephen Skinner: , (1671) seventeenth century. Over 50% of the items in his long appendix of old words are based, directly and indirectly, on Speght’s glossaries. This appendix may be looked upon as the first Middle English dictionary, meant for the educated reader and the scholar, rather than for the general public. The im

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