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In a review of OCEL in the Times Literary Supplement [11 December 1992] it was suggested that inserting asterisks alongside the terms that were treated in their own entries would have helped; that is certainly an accepted and often helpful practice in longer encyclopedic texts, but it tends to interrupt reading and clutters up shorter entries of the kind encountered in the OCEL .
A very recent development, of British origin, is the addition of names to monolingual dictionaries of English as a Second Language [ESL], such as the new encyclopedic edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1992).
Even in its first edition, his manual was more encyclopedic than others, packed with up-to-date medical and practical advice delivered in down-to-earth prose.
One might think, given the emphasis on encyclopedic information, that etymologies of place names would be included, but they are not.
I question their status as lexical items but cannot argue on safe ground because they might well be categorized as part of the “encyclopedic” information.