Vocabulary
Here are entered general works and works on English vocabulary. Works dealing with the vocabularies of other languages are entered under names of specific languages, with subdivision Vocabulary, e.g. French language -- Vocabulary.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Vocabulary -- Humor
- English language -- Word frequency
- New words
- Obsolete words
- Word recognition
- Keres language -- Vocabulary
- English language -- Vocabulary
- Word books
- Words, Stock of
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The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (Gutenberg text)
- The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith
- The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text and audio)
- The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce
- The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, c1944), by Edward L. Thorndike and Irving Lorge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Teacher's Word Book (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Edward L. Thorndike (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture: A Selected Guide to Russian Words, Idioms, and Expressions of the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Irina H. Corten (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, ed. by Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin (HTML and page images at NAP)
- Grammatical and Lexical Notes on the Keres Language (Acoma-Language Dialect) of the Keresan Stock (Hervas Laboratories of American Linguistics Bulletin #5; 1914), by Noxon Toomey (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Singing -- Diction- The Voice: How to Use It; With Exercises for Tone and Articulation (revised edition; Boston: Expression Co., c1938), by Sarah T. Barrows and Anne E. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catchwords and Claptrap (London: L. and V. Woolf, 1926), by Rose Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2007; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2009), ed. by Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere (PDF at Georgetown)
- Lexis (full serial archives)
- A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
- Ka: A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices, Electrical Phenomena, and Their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Hugh Crosthwaite, contrib. by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Names (full serial archives)
- From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
- Impenetrability: or, The Proper Habit of English (London: Pub. by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The English Language (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1912), by Logan Pearsall Smith (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
- What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Bob Broad (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A Textbook on School Subjects, Drawing and Pedagogics: Penmanship; Vertican Penmansip; Grammar; Punctuation and Capitalization; Double-Entry Bookkeeping; With Questions and Exercises (Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1902), by International Correspondence Schools
- The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1989), ed. by Pamela B. Childers (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Lynn Z. Bloom (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Self-Aids in the Essentials of Grammatical Usage (revised edition; Washington: Educational and Personnel Pub. Co., c1927), by L. J. O'Rourke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Mildred Buchanan Flagg
- How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (author's copyright edition; Boston: Robert Bros., 1883), by Edwin A. Abbott
- Imitation and Analysis: English Exercises Based on Irving's Sketch Book (Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, c1902), by Francis P. Donnelly, contrib. by Washington Irving
- A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition, For the Use of Colleges and Schools (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1867), by John Mitchell Bonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum (c1994), ed. by Pamela B. Childers, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- Guide to Composition (Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1919), by James Finch Royster and Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Primer and Language Lessons in English and Cree, by E. B. Glass, trans. by John McDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
- Lessons in Reading-Writing-Arithmetic, for Special School Work in Georgia (Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, state printer, 1916), by Georgia Department of Education
- Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day (reprint; originally printed Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Walter W. Skeat (Gutenberg text)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (first edition volumes, 1888-1928), ed. by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, William A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions (page images at archive.org and HathiTrust)
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse, 1828), by Noah Webster
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (abridged from the quarto edition, revised, with appendix; New York: White and Sheffield, 1841), by Noah Webster, contrib. by John Walker (multiple formats at Google)
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fifth edition) (searchable HTML with commentary at ahdictionary.com)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (12 volumes; New York: The Century Co., c1906-1910), ed. by William Dwight Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (seventh impression of first edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), ed. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785), by Samuel Johnson
- A Dictionary of the English Language (Boston: Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1860), by Joseph E. Worcester
- A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous, With a Copious Appendix (Springfield, MA: G. C. Merriam and Co., 1872), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Noah Porter, and William A. Wheeler (page images at MOA)
- The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language With a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronounciation, and Use (7 volumes; London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1879-1888), ed. by Robert Hunter
- Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (free online edition) (searchable HTML at ldoceonline.com)
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (current edition, with additional material) (searchable HTML at m-w.com)
- A New Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; London: W. Pickering, 1836-1837), by Charles Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary (6th edition; London: Printed for J. Philips, et al., 1706), ed. by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
- Universal Dictionary of the English Language: A New and Original Work Presenting for Convenient Reference the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, Use, Origin and Development of Every Word in the English Language (4 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier, 1897), ed. by Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
- searchable HTML at Chicago
- A-B: HUGE Gutenberg text
- C: HUGE Gutenberg text
- D-E: HUGE Gutenberg text
- F-H: HUGE Gutenberg text
- I-L: HUGE Gutenberg text
- M-O: HUGE Gutenberg text
- P-Q: HUGE Gutenberg text
- R: HUGE Gutenberg text
- S: HUGE Gutenberg text
- T-W: HUGE Gutenberg text
- X-Z: Gutenberg text (zipped only)
- An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
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