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Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

Note 22 — HISTORY OF NEW WORDS.

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Henry Cockeram’s curious little “English Dictionarie, or an Interpretation of hard English words”, 12mo, 1631, professes to give in its first book “the choicest words themselves now in use, wherewith our language is inriched and become so copious.” Many have not survived, such as the following:—

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