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MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

University of Central Florida: UCF Researchers Receive NEH Grant to Preserve Noah Webster’s Dictionaries Online. “Researchers in UCF’s Department of English and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) are slated to receive nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create searchable digital editions of Webster’s historic dictionaries, giving […]

University of Central Florida: UCF Researchers Receive NEH Grant to Preserve Noah Webster’s Dictionaries Online. “Researchers in UCF’s Department of English and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) are slated to receive nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create searchable digital editions of Webster’s historic dictionaries, giving […]

University of Central Florida: UCF Researchers Receive NEH Grant to Preserve Noah Webster’s Dictionaries Online. “Researchers in UCF’s Department of English and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) are slated to receive nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create searchable digital editions of Webster’s historic dictionaries, giving […]

University of Central Florida: UCF Researchers Receive NEH Grant to Preserve Noah Webster’s Dictionaries Online. “Researchers in UCF’s Department of English and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) are slated to receive nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create searchable digital editions of Webster’s historic dictionaries, giving […]

University of Central Florida: UCF Researchers Receive NEH Grant to Preserve Noah Webster’s Dictionaries Online. “Researchers in UCF’s Department of English and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) are slated to receive nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create searchable digital editions of Webster’s historic dictionaries, giving […]

LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CANNISTER. The head. To mill his cannister; to break his head.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

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CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

CROAKER. One who is always foretelling some accident or misfortune: an allusion to the croaking of a raven, supposed ominous.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

--
#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

TO DRAW. To take any thing from a pocket. To draw a swell of a clout. To pick a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. To draw the long bow; to tell lies.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Here's the blog he runs for the IU Library's Kripke Collection and it is full of fun stuff! #archives #dictionaries #lexicography #thatwordChat
https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/tag/kripke-collection/

Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/

#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch

And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/

#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog

https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/

Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!

#Lexicography #Dictionaries

"What is interesting now is the arrival of slang that draws not on language, but on digital memes, from Tik-Tok and elsewhere. This is a whole new ball game..."

Jonathon Green, aka Mister Slang: https://jonathongreen.substack.com/p/all-together-now

#slang #language #lexicography #dictionaries #words

Peter Gilliver, who I had the brief pleasure of working with for about a year at the #OED, has set up this site for his writings about the history of the #OxfordEnglishDictionary and the people, who helped create it. Worth a read!

https://themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/

#Lexicography #PeterGilliver #Dictionaries #JamesMurray

Good to see Northern England getting more explicit recognition from the OED.

I was also delighted to be reminded of the existence of the word "apeth", which I have not heard in speech for decades, and to learn of its etymology; as a child, I thought it had something to do with apes!

#English #NorthernEngland #EnglishPronunciation #Apeth #OED #Dictionaries #OxfordEnglishDictionary

https://www.oed.com/discover/pronunciations-from-northern-england/?tl=true

Irish Post: Funding of €1m will progress project creating historical dictionary of Irish language . “AN ongoing project which will create a dictionary of the Irish language from the 1600s to the present day has received a funding injection of more than €1m. Some €1.1 million has been announced for the Historical Dictionary of Irish or Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge project, which will […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/28/irish-post-funding-of-e1m-will-progress-project-creating-historical-dictionary-of-irish-language/

https://archive.org/details/lingen

Lingala Dictionary & Phrasebook: A Language of Central Africa. Lingala-English/English-Lingala by Aquilina Mawadza; Yeno Matuka

Topics
#Lingala, #dictionary, #dictionaries, #bilingualdictionary, #bilingualdictionaries, #translationdictionary, #translationdictionaries, #phrasebook, #phrasebooks, #bagó, #lingɛlɛ́sa, #búku, #Congo, #Kongo, #Kongó, #KongóKinsásá, #RepublíkiyaKongóDemokratíki

Lingala (a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family) is spoken by approximately 10 million people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Angola. It originated in the Equatorial Region of the DRC, but as the official language of the Army, it became the major language of the Capital city, Kinshasa. Lingala is considered one of the national languages of the DRC.

This dictionary uses the simplified Lingala dialect, also known as Lingala facile. It is mostly a spoken language.

This unique, two-part resource provides travelers to central Africa with the tools they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant communication on a variety of topics.

https://archive.org/details/nopd-navajo

The New Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Navajo Edition by Marvin Yellowhair; E. C. Parnwell; Ray Burns; Bob Giuliani; Laura Hartman; Pamela Johnson; Melodye Rosales; Raymond Skibinski; Joel Snyder

Topics
#dictionaries, #dictionary, #picturedictionary, #picturedictionaries, #colonialism, #Dinébizaad, #naaltsoossaadbeesiánígíí, #bilingualdictionary, #bilingualdictionaries, #translationdictionary, #translationdictionaries, #naaltsoosbikááeelyaaígíí, #naaltsooswoltaí, #unitedstatesofamerika, #colonization