Date:  Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:25:18 EST

From:  Terry Lynn Irons <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>

Subject: Re: HEL and dictionaries



I think the absolutely best desk dictionary for a History of English

Language course is the American Heritage Dictionary of the English

Language, because it has the final essay by Calvert Watkins about

Indo-European, the appendix on Indo-European roots, a table of sound

correspondences and such. The appendix material can be the basis for an

excelllent essay. For more information, look at Don Lance's essay in

Glowka & Lance, eds., Language Variation in North American English.



Terry

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