Ar an dara lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Ross Clark:
This is the date at the end of the Preface.
One of those pre-dictionaries.
The first English word list with English-only definitions, arranged *in alphabetical order* (as explained in the Preface).
It was in the "hard words" tradition -- 2,449 of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cawdrey
From its preface:
“Legere, et non intelligere, neglegere est.
As good not read, as not to vnderstand.”
I hadn’t picked up that “neglect” was related to “legere”
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‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)
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