Old Words in Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary

Author / Editor
Arai, Teruki.

Title
Old Words in Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary

Published
Sophia English Studies 15 (1990): 29-44.

Description
Statistical exploration of words attributed to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. In the fourth edition of Bailey's dictionary (1728), the classifications "Chaucerian" and "old" are not distinct.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.