Dictionaries

Dr Johnson's Dictionary: an Anthology (London: Penguin Classics, 2005), xlv+650 pp. 0 713 99887 3

See also Linguistics

Articles and contributions

Proposal for a Dictionary of English-Speaking Peoples. Report to Cassells Publishers, 1967

Thinking about dictionaries.  BBC English, November 1970, 8-9

The ideal dictionary, lexicographer and user. In R. Ilson (ed), Lexicography: an emerging international profession (Manchester University Press, 1986), 72-81. (And index to the volume)

Preface, and English Today.  In M. Manser & N. Turton, The Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987)

The linguistic identity of English-language dictionaries of linguistics. Lexicographia 13, 1997, 17-33

Essential grammar. In The Longman Essential Activator (London: Addison Wesley Longman), 911-936

Investigating nonceness: lexical innovation and lexicographic coverage. In Robert Boenig & Kathleen Davis (eds), Manuscript, narrative and lexicon: essays on literary and cultural transmission in honor of Whitney F Bolton (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000), 218-31

Mini-essays (6) for The New Penguin Dictionary (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000)

Taking care of the sense. IATEFL 2003 (for the launch of the 4th edition of The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)

Johnson and the Internet. Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture, University of London, 21 April 2005

Johnson's Dictionary 250 years on. Presidential address to the Johnson Society, Lichfield, September 2005. Johnson Society Transactions, 2005, 1-9

Reviews

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, The Tablet, 14 October 1972, 979-80

Review of J.E. Towell & H.E. Sheppard, Acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations dictionaries, Child Language Teaching and Therapy 3(3), 365-6

J. Cresswell, Dictionary of First Names, The Tablet, 9 February 1991, 167-8