All my eye and Betty Martin
Roy Harris, 1 December 1983
A Dictionary of Mottoes
by L.G. Pine.
Routledge, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983,9780710093394 Show More
by L.G. Pine.
Routledge, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983,
Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon
by Jonathon Green.
Routledge, 263 pp., £9.95, October 1983,0 7100 9685 2 Show More
by Jonathon Green.
Routledge, 263 pp., £9.95, October 1983,
The Oxford Miniguide to English Usage
by E.S.C. Weiner.
Oxford, 412 pp., £1.95, October 1983,0 19 869127 0 Show More
by E.S.C. Weiner.
Oxford, 412 pp., £1.95, October 1983,
The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English: Volume II
by A.P. Cowrie, R. Mackin and I.R. McCaig.
Oxford, 685 pp., £12.50, October 1983,0 19 431150 3 Show More
by A.P. Cowrie, R. Mackin and I.R. McCaig.
Oxford, 685 pp., £12.50, October 1983,
A Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and its Aftermath
by Kenneth Hudson.
Macmillan, 203 pp., £12.95, October 1983,0 333 28517 4 Show More
by Kenneth Hudson.
Macmillan, 203 pp., £12.95, October 1983,
A Dictionary of Catch-Phrases
by Eric Partridge.
Routledge, 278 pp., £5.95, October 1983,0 7100 9989 4 Show More
by Eric Partridge.
Routledge, 278 pp., £5.95, October 1983,
“... Lexicographical apparatus, as Walter Ong recently reminded us in Orality and Literacy, was ‘a very late accretion to language as language’. It was also quite a profitable accretion for at least two classes of language-user: printers and publishers. It still is, to judge by the way dictionaries continue to proliferate. One gets the impression that the dictionary industry has rarely been in finer fettle since the invention of alphabetical order ... ”
