Words, words, words
Mar. 15th, 2022 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I just found out that the first-ever alphabetical-order English dictionary, A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604), is online and searchable. If you click back to the beginning (I'm linking to "A", for happier browsing) you'll find it's
Secondly, I have discovered that you can set your Kindle to the Oxford English Dictionary (not the unabridged) instead of the Oxford American Dictionary, which is handy for me, who am likelier to unknow British words than American.
plaine English words, gathered for the benefit &helpe of Ladies, Gentlewomen, or any other vnskilfull persons.
Secondly, I have discovered that you can set your Kindle to the Oxford English Dictionary (not the unabridged) instead of the Oxford American Dictionary, which is handy for me, who am likelier to unknow British words than American.