Dictionary

I love dictionaries!

Recommended

Somers, J. (2014). You’re probably using the wrong dictionary His blog

An ode to Webster’s 1913 dictionary.

Auburn, D. et al. (2012). Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus (3rd edition). Oxford University Press Inc.

Editors of the A. H. (2018). The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language, Fifth Edition: Fiftieth Anniversary Printing (Indexed edition). Collins Reference.

Usage notes, fights between descriptivists and prescriptivists, illustrations, portraits—what more could you ask for in a dictionary?

Cuddon, J. A., & Habib, M. A. R. (2015). Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary (5th edition). Penguin UK.

Mautner, T. (Ed.). (2005). Dictionary Of Philosophy (2nd edition). Penguin UK.

Excellent!

Medawar, P. B., & Medawar, J. S. (1985). Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology. Oxford University Press.

Tschirner, E.; Möhring, J. A Frequency Dictionary of German.

Surprisingly good.

Langenscheidt Basic German Vocabulary. Hauptbd. A Learner’s Dictionary Divided into Subject Categories with Example Sentences; Langenscheidt: Berlin, 2010.

If I Get Time

Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon; Cassin, B., Rendall, S., Apter, E. S., Eds.; Translation/Transnation Ser; Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2014.