Robert Cawdrey's (1604) dictionary[Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)],is actually called A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words. It provides some early illustrations describing use of the English language. .
As this interest in describing (and prescribing) use of the English language developed, so did lexicography, the craft of making dictionaries.
In Activity 10 you will look at an the extract from Blackadder III which makes fun of the part of a lexicographer's task that might be to do with capturing neologisms, or newly minted words.
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