DICTIONARY

[Clifford Black]

This is an open note to all---esp:Adisa.

Dictionaries - In the Webster’s you might possibly find information about Mr. Webster.

In some of the older books there will be a picture and some info at the front of the book.

Look at the table of contents and there should be a page listed for abbreviations. Find the how to use this dictionary or it may say explanatory notes-please read. Find the historical sketch of the English language and this will be different in each dictionary. Read all histories of English even though they will not state the same thing---do not be confused by this, it is a part of the process. In the back of your 1947 there should be a page for signs and symbols this is important, you will also find a table for weights and measurements and element charts and if they are not in the back of the book check your table of contents. In the Random House there is sure to be a history and in most there are usually vocabulary builder pages.  If used in a correct manner, by the time you are complete with this you will have the equivalent of a PHD in the English language.

 

This note was in response to an email form Adisa.

 

This is the oringinal mail from Bro. Adisa

I have the following dictionaries,

     1937 Unabridged Webster's Universal

     1947 American College Dictionary

     1973 Unabridged Random  House College Dictionary.

[Adisa]

This link is to Noah Webster's textbook: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=tX8SAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcov...