In 1882 the University of Cambridge accepted a bequest of 5,000 from the writer John Frederick Stanford (1815 1880) for the purpose of creating a dictionary of loan words found in English. This volume, first published in 1892, was the result. Charles Augustus Fennell (1843 1916), a classicist and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge was responsible for selecting the words for inclusion. Following criteria based on Stanford's own notes, the definition of 'anglicised words' is very broad, including words loaned from European languages which entered common use in English after 1470 as well as...
In 1882 the University of Cambridge accepted a bequest of 5,000 from the writer John Frederick Stanford (1815 1880) for the purpose of creating a dict...
