Exploring the History of Dictionaries Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use.

the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn.

the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order.

Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum.

Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding.

linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957.

G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary.

John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869.

lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title.

Exploring the History of Dictionaries

1 The Qamus al-Muhit is the first handy dictionary in Arabic, which includes only words and their definitions, eliminating the supporting examples used in such dictionaries as the Lisan and the ________.

2 The earliest in the ________ were glossaries of French, Italian or Latin words along with definitions of the foreign words in English.

3 [2] The early 2nd millennium BCE Urra=hubullu glossary is the canonical ________ version of such bilingual Sumerian wordlists.

4 Following the description in The Bilingual LSP Dictionary ________ categorize specialized dictionaries into three types.

5 [2] The first ________ dictionary, the Amarakośa, was written by Amara Sinha ca.

6 The oldest known dictionaries were ________ cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated roughly 2300 BCE.

7 According to the Nihon Shoki, the first ________ was the long-lost 682 CE Niina glossary of Chinese characters.

8 Johnson's Dictionary remained the English-language standard for over 150 years, until the Oxford University Press began writing and releasing the ________ in short fascicles from 1884 onwards.

9 ________'s An American Dictionary of the English Language (prescriptive)

10 Glosary of dictionary terms by the ________

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