Charlotte Brewer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Charlotte Brewer is involved.

Articles

Brewer, Charlotte 2015 A History of the ‘Concise Oxford Dictionary’. By Małgorzata Anna Kamińska Missionary Linguistics world-wide: Theory, practice and politics, pp. 441–445 | Review

Brewer, Charlotte 2009 Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, current and future lexicography. Edited by Marijke Mooijaart and Marijke van der Wal Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 434–437 | Review

Brewer, Charlotte 2007 Pronouncing the “P”: Prescription or description in 19th- and 20th-century English dictionaries? Historiographia Linguistica 34:2/3, pp. 257–280 | Article

During the course of the 19th century, many English dictionaries carrying information on pronunciation directed that Greek-derived words beginning ps- should be pronounced with a silent initial p. In the relevant section of the OED, however (published 1909), the editor J. A. H. Murray (1837–1915)… read more