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Coles’ selection of old words was largely determined by his use of Skinner, a hitherto undetected source for his dictionary. Coles is thus the first of the second generation of lexicographers who were indebted to Speght, but who drew on him only indirectly through Skinner.
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Notes to Chapter Nine
See the note on Coles in the Scolar Press facsimile of the English Dictionary,Menston, 1971.
See Starnes and Noyes, op.cit., p. 63.
Starnes and Noyes, op.cit., p. 82.
Fax is to be found immediately preceding fiz-gig.
Ridge, rudg is to be found immediately following rigation.
Trasoun is to be found immediately following trauma tick.
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Kerling, J. (1979). Elisha Coles: An English Dictionary (1676). In: Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries. Germanic and Anglistic Studies of the University of Leiden, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7024-8_9
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