User talk:Filll/unusualwords

Unusual word lists and compilations of unusual and unfamiliar words, or words with unfamiliar properties have long been a topic of popular and scholarly interest in the English.

The first publications resembling dictionaries that included English words were lists of definitions of words in Latin, or sometimes French or Italian, in English.

The first of these lists of unusual and unfamiliar words were created when there were no dictionaries in English, and became the motivation for the creation of English dictionaries.

For example, Richard Mulcaster created a list of 8000 words in 1582 called Elementarie. Robert Cawdrey produced A Table Alphabeticall in 1604, a list of unusual words together with definitions. Cawdrey's list was arguably the first English dictionary.

Exterior links

 * DICTIONARY OF UNCOMMON WORDS: 10,000 of the Most Difficult Words in the American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary, The Mega Foundation website


 * World Wide Words, Michael Quinion


 * Unusual Words,Scorpio Tales website


 * Word Trivia, Scorpio Tales website


 * The Phrontistery, Forthright, a.k.a. Steve Chrisomalis


 * Worthless Word for the Day: Word of the Day, Obscure Words, Logophile, Dictionary, Lexicon, Michael A. Fischer


 * Glossary of Unusual Words Found in Wills etc, Tylcoat Tylecote  Talcott  Genealogy website, Dave and Sue Tylecoat.


 * Word Information - Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Dictionary of English Words Derived from Latin and Greek Sources, Presented Individually and in Family Units, All of Which Are Utilized in Modern English Vocabulary, John G. Robertson, Senior Scribe Publications, November 1991, ISBN 0963091905


 * Explore English Words Derived from Latin-Greek Origins, John G. Robertson

Books

 * The Meaning of Tingo, Adam Jacot de Boinod, Penguin.


 * The Word Lover's Dictionary: Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, Josefa Heifetz, Citadel, October 1, 2000, ISBN 0806517204


 * The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, Peter Bowler (Author), Ron Bell (Illustrator), David R Godine; American Ed edition, August 1, 1992, ISBN 087923928X