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On the day I picked up the OEED to review, Philip Howard's feature, Word-Watching, in The Times [11 November 1991], used in his definition of cicisbeism the word poodle-faker, which, as near as I can make out, is an obscure or archaic Briticism, possibly military slang.
The Word-Cross, as it was called, started its existence as just another little Sunday supplement feature, with no pretensions to permanence.
One might regard it as a popular combination of Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages (1949 and 1988) and A Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), both University of Chicago Press, with something of Edward Pinkerton's Word for Word , Verbatim Books (1982), and my Suffixes and Word-Final Elements of English (1982) and Prefixes and Word-Initial Elements of English (1984), both Gale Research, thrown in.
Historical Change and English Word-Formation: Recent Vocabulary , 340pp.
The first two parts of this work, the third part of which is a dictionary of 5380 German loanwords in English, begins with a useful Introduction that provides the book with just the right setting, then goes on in Part I with An historical overview by semantic fields and, in Part II, with a Linguistic overview, which treats matters like Phonology and Graphemics, Grammar, Word-Formation Processes, Semantics, Naturalization, and Dialect.