The first, incomplete Navajo-English Dictionary was compiled, in 1958, by Leon Wall, an official in the U.S. government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. Wall, who was in charge of a literacy program on the ...
From "The First English Dictionary of Slang" (University of Chicago Press; $25), originally published in 1699 as "A New Dictionary of Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew." In his introduction ...
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