Dictionary of American English

A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (DAE) is a dictionary of terms appearing in English in the United States that was published in four volumes from 1938 to 1944 by the University of Chicago Press.^[1]^[2]^[3] Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it covers American English words and phrases in use from the first English settlements up to the start of the 20th century.

History

The work was begun in 1925 by William A. Craigie. The first volume appeared in 1936 under the editorship of Craigie and James R. Hulbert,^[4] a professor of English at the University of Chicago. The four volume edition was completed with the help of George Watson and Allen Walker Read.

The work was one of the sources for the Dictionary of Americanisms, c. 1952, prepared under the direction of Mitford Mathews. A similar, but unrelated modern work, the Dictionary of American Regional English, has been compiled to show dialect variation.

Volumes

I. A-Corn patch.

II. Corn pit-Honk.

III. Honk-Record.

IV. Recorder-Zu-zu, Bibliography (p. 2529-2552)

Notes

↑ "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 39008203". lccn.loc.gov. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
↑ John Davidson (Oct–Dec 1940). "A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles". The Sewanee Review (The Johns Hopkins University Press) 48 (4): 544–546. JSTOR 27535715.
↑ "Short Notices". The Review of English Studies (Oxford University Press) XIII (50): 221–222. 1962. doi:10.1093/res/XIII.50.221.
↑ University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, Guide to the James R. Hulbert Papers,1912–1936

Dictionaries of English

Old and Middle English	An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Dict. of Old English Middle English Dictionary

Historic	Edward Phillips' (1658) John Kersey's (1702) Nathan Bailey's (1721) Samuel Johnson's (1755) Noah Webster's (1828) Century (1889–91)

American English	American Heritage Dict. of American English Dict. of American Regional English New Oxford American Oxford American Random House Webster's Webster's New World Webster's Third New International World Book Dictionary

British English	Chambers Collins Oxford English, Concise Oxford English, Shorter Oxford English, Historical Thesaurus, Oxford Dictionary of English Penguin

Canadian English	List of Canadian English dictionaries

Other regions	Australian National Australian Oxford Macquarie

Online	Wiktionary Collaborative International Dict. of English Urban Dictionary Wordnik

Learners / ESL	Cambridge Advanced Learner's Collins COBUILD Advanced Longman Dict. of Contemporary English Macmillan English Dict. for Advanced Learners Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Oxford Advanced Learner's