1169. In this bonus segment, originally released in November, we look at Peter Sokolowski's "Tale of Two Dictionaries," tracing the word "dictionary" back to a 16th-century Latin work by a monk named Calepino. We look at how this original source led to the first monolingual dictionaries in both English and French, all within a year of each other.

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The ‘Tale of Two Dictionaries,’ with Peter Sokolowski

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The ‘Tale of Two Dictionaries,’ with Peter Sokolowski