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A New English Dictionary: or, a complete collection of the most proper and significant words, commonly used in the language was an English dictionary compiled byphilologistJohn Kersey and first published in London in 1702.[1]
Unlike previous dictionaries, which had focused on documenting difficult words,A New English Dictionary was one of the first to focus on words in common usage.[1] It was also the first to be written by a professionallexicographer.[citation needed]
Kersey later continued his lexicographic career by enlargingEdward Phillips'The New World of English Words in 1706 and editing theDictionarium Anglo-Britannicum in 1708.
The original title of theOxford English Dictionary wasA New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, and it was sometimes given the abbreviationNED, forNew English Dictionary.
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