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DOSAE shows attention to detail, provides extensive definitions with detailed cross references, has broad phonetic transcriptions and, above all, provides delightful illustrative sentences from historical and contemporary sources.
According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.
Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.
This is not a problem peculiar to DOSAE ; rather, it is one of the strongest challenges facing lexicographers of a vast number of languages in the twenty-first century, as English continues to spread, influence, and be influenced by languages all over the world in situations of intimate language contact.
Yet, the citations they give afford a clue to the real status of this and numerous other items in DOSAE : This wall chart, attractive ... and tweetalig nogal [bilingual, what's more], is to be distributed to all hospitals.... and Four years in the charge office as a fraud detective.