http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/1st_dictionary/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/1st_dictionary/#comment-149477 Harry Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:47:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1745#comment-149477 During the time of the American Revolution, what dictionary would have the Founding Fathers refered to as they were writing the Bill of Rights, Constitution and The Declaration of Independence. It seems to me they were very specific and careful about how they worded these documents. Is there any historical information on what dictionary they used. I think this would be important since everybody wants to interperet the meanings of these documents to their own best interest instead of what the words really ment to the people who wrote them. Any information you can give me will be greatly appriciated. Thank you, Harry During the time of the American Revolution, what dictionary would have the Founding Fathers refered to as they were writing the Bill of Rights, Constitution and The Declaration of Independence. It seems to me they were very specific and careful about how they worded these documents. Is there any historical information on what dictionary they used. I think this would be important since everybody wants to interperet the meanings of these documents to their own best interest instead of what the words really ment to the people who wrote them. Any information you can give me will be greatly appriciated. Thank you, Harry

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/1st_dictionary/#comment-145509 Grant Barrett Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1745#comment-145509 A thorough examination of this topic can be found in Jack Lynch's 2005 paper <a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Papers/firstdict.html" rel="nofollow">How Johnson's Dictionary Became the First Dictionary</a>. A thorough examination of this topic can be found in Jack Lynch’s 2005 paper How Johnson’s Dictionary Became the First Dictionary.

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