Dot Wordsworth

Mind Your Language | 4 January 2003

A Lexicographer writes

issue 04 January 2003

I lapped up Liza Picard’s Dr Johnson’s London on holiday, and now someone (not my husband) has given me her Restoration London for Christmas.

In a small section on the words used in the Restoration period, she brings in two expressions that she has come across in contemporary books, not in secondary sources such as dictionaries.

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