Word: britannicum
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Every lexicon but youth's is bright enough to include such words as "fail," but not every dictionary is first-rate. The appearance of a first-rate dictionary is a newsworthy event in literary history. Since Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1721), these events can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.* Though every dictionary is more of a Who's Who of words than a supreme court of language, it is the ambition of every lexicographer to be the final arbiter. Generally acknowledged by scholars to be the nearest approach so far to supreme...
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