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John Considine, Sixteenth-century English dictionaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 496. ISBN 9780198832287.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2023
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1 Considine quotes this in a way that recommends the use of dictionaries. He writes (p.1): ‘When the sixteenth-century theorist of education Roger Ascham wanted to argue as strongly as possible for the importance of a book, he said that it should “be euer in the Scholers hand, and also vsed of him, as a Dictionarie, for euerie present vse”.’