Re: Robert Cawdrey finishes _A Table Alphabetical_ (27-6-1604)

 Ar an dara lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > This is the date at the end of the Preface.
 > One of those pre-dictionaries.
 > The first English word list with English-only definitions, arranged *in
 > alphabetical order* (as explained in the Preface).
 > It was in the "hard words" tradition -- 2,449 of them.
 >
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cawdrey

From its preface:

 “Legere, et non intelligere, neglegere est.
 As good not read, as not to vnderstand.”

I hadn’t picked up that “neglect” was related to “legere”

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