being
A New English Dictionary
upon Ainthological Principles
Founded mainly upon materials collected by the Zeitgeist;
every entry attested, every chain of provenance locked.
Volume the First · A – Z
With Plates, bound at centre
Acworth: Printed for the Indifferencer Press
MMXXVI
to the first edition
The present Work records words that the age has coined without noticing. Each entry is admitted upon a single standard: that the word was uttered by an identifiable party, on an identifiable date, in the course of identifiable circumstances, and was thereupon ratified in use. No entry is admitted upon merit alone; merit without provenance is speculation, and speculation is not lexicography.
Quotation paragraphs follow the conventions of the great dictionaries, save that the materials quoted are frequently conversations with machines. The Editors see no difficulty in this. A citation is a citation; the age must be allowed to speak in the registers it actually uses.
The Plates, engraved separately, are bound at the physical centre of the volume, after the custom of the finer encyclopædias, and without regard to the alphabet, which must simply bear the interruption.
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