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"Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Among writers quoted in the current edition of the OED, Dickens lags behind only Shakespeare, Scott, Chaucer, Milton, and Dryden for total number of citations (9,218). No one in the past two centuries comes close. Of the Dickens citations in the OED, 258 citations are the earliest recorded by the dictionary for a particular word, and 1,586 are the earliest for a particular sense of a word.

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