John Ray, A Collection of English Words not Generally Used (1674)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1674
Lexicographer
John Wray (alternate name for John Ray ) Note: 12/10/2005
Francis Willughby
Book title
A Collection of English Words. Not Generally used, with their Significations and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues. The One of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties. With Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes: And an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals as are gotten in England
Publication place
London
Printer
H. Bruges
Publisher
T. Burrell
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • dialects (in English)
  • fauna
  • metallurgy
Summary
About 1000 items (700 of the North, 300 of the South and East); a Celtic glossary (pp. 122-30); and a Northumbrian glossary (pp. 139-52)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The Hause or the Hose: the throat: ab AS. Hals, collum. (p. 24; northern)
Newing: yeast or barm. Ess. (p. 73; south and east)
Alston
IX.1-5
Wing
R 388
Other editions
1691: Wing R389. Enlarged.
1737: ESTC K10626
1742: ESTC K10627
Facsimiles
Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. PE 1667 .R3 1691A ROBA 1 Ray, John. A Collection of English Words. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 145. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Criticisms
  • Cram, D., "Birds, beasts and fishes versus bats, mongrels and hybrids: The publication history of John Ray's Dictionariolum," Paradigm 6 (1991): 4-7
  • Görlach (1995): 90
  • Linden (1987): 89
  • Luick, K., Anglia Beiblatt 39: 323-24.
Bately, Janet M. "Ray, Worlidge, and Kersey's Revision of The New World of English Words." Anglia 85 (1967): 1-14. view record
Luick, Karl. "Ein Bisher Unbeachtetes Zeugnis für den frühneuenglischen Lautwert des Vokals in use." Anglia Beiblatt 39 (): 323-24. view record
Raven, Charles E. John Ray, Naturalist, his Life and Works. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. view record
Gladstone, Jo. "'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of His Times (1658-1691)." Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language. Eds. Peter Burke and Roy Porter. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1991. 115-53. view record
Baldwin, Stuart A. John Ray (1627-1705). Witham: n.p., 1986. view record
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey. John Ray, 1627-1705: A Bibliography 1660-1970: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works of John Ray, English Naturalist, Philologist and Theologian. Amsterdam: G. Th. van Heusden, 1976. view record