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Who wrote the first English dictionary? Detailed answer
Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? Who wrote the first English dictionary? Do you know how the dictionary came about? In Latin, there was a word "dictionarius", which meant "a collection of words." An English teacher named John Garland first named a list of Latin words that students were required to know by heart. It was about 1225. The English name of the explanatory dictionary comes from this Latin word. For more than 300 years not a single English word has appeared in any dictionary. Most dictionaries in England were written to help people learning Latin. The titles of these books were truly picturesque, such as Warehouse for Babies or Garden of Words. Finally, in 1552, the first dictionary of English words was published. It was compiled by Richard Haloe. The name of the dictionary was long: "Absedarium Anglico-Latinum about Tirunculis". As you can see, this book was also called in Latin. Its difference from other dictionaries was that each English word in it had an English explanation, and only then only a Latin translation. Since the dictionary placed English words with their explanations first, it was recognized as the first English explanatory dictionary. "Absedarium" contained 26 words. It was very popular, but very expensive. As a result, a large number of similar books were published, smaller in volume, but more accessible to the general reader. In those days, dictionaries did not strive to include all the words in the English language: they explained only the most difficult ones. The first book called "English Explanatory Dictionary" appeared in 1623. It was compiled by Henry Cocker. In 1807 in the United States, Noah Webster began work on a huge dictionary, which was published in 1828. The dictionary contained 12 words and 000 comments on them. No one before Webster had done this kind of work. Webster slightly simplified the spelling of difficult words, due to which the spelling of some English words in England and America differs. Author: Likum A.
In which direction does the water in the bath drain? a) Clockwise. b) counterclockwise. c) vertically down. d) Depends on the circumstances. Depends on the circumstances. The widely held belief that the water in a bathtub spirals when drained under the influence of the Coriolis force caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis is erroneous. Although the Coriolis force does affect large and long-term synoptic situations such as a hurricane or an ocean current, it is too weak to have any effect on domestic sewers. The direction of the drain depends on the shape of the sink, from which side it was filled, as well as on the rotation introduced by the washing process itself or when you pull out the plug. Of course, if you take a perfectly symmetrical vat with a tiny drain hole and a stopper that you can pull out without disturbing the balance of the water, fill this vat and leave it for a week so that any movement completely subsides, then, in theory, you can notice a very weak Coriolis effect, which in the Northern Hemisphere would have a counterclockwise direction, and in the Southern Hemisphere - clockwise. Many believed in such a myth thanks to the plot included in one of Michael Palin's programs "From Pole to Pole". It was a film about a showman from the Kenyan city of Nanyuki, who tried to demonstrate the Coriolis effect on different sides of the equator. But even if we assume that such an effect really exists, it is in this film that the direction of circulation just turned out to be exactly the opposite.
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