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As a practicing lexicographer (I have complied two Arabic bilingual dictionaries with illustrative sentences), but more important, as one who continually has trouble retrieving certain English words from my mental lexicon, I consider this book a real gold mine.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament says of parthenos: “a virgin.
The looking-glass image of utopia--dystopia--has provided more numerous additions to the English lexicon.
Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.
Besides the lexicon, grammar--especially syntax--has changed somewhat, too, though again not so much as to be incomprehensible to the average modern reader.