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Oxford English Dictionary
Brief History of English
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100
Who wrote and published the first dictionary?
Robert Cawdrey
100
Where did the oldest core words come from?
Angles, Saxon and Jutes
100
When did the first alphabetical lists appear?
Scarcely around 250BCE in papyrus texts from Alexandria
100
What two numbers were part of Shannon's equation?
Zero and One
100
What did 'influence' mean to Robert Cawdry?
Flowing in
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The first English dictionary did not include what word?
Dictionary
200
Where did the viking invaders bring words from?
The Norse and Danish
200
What does abecedarie mean?
The order of letters
200
Who were the first fathers of mathematical logic?
Betrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead
200
The system of mathematical logic formulated by Russell and Whitehead is called?
Principia Mathmatica (PM)
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How many words did the first English dictionary include?
2,500
300
Where did Latin come from?
Christian missionaries
300
To spell originally meant what?
To speak or utter
300
Can mathematics be proved free of self contradiction?
No
300
When did the age of electricity begin?
1874
400
What did Richard Mulcaster do?
He requested a dictionary
400
Who wrote in the Roman alphabet?
Christian Missionnaires
400
Robert Cawdry complied 2,500 words in his first dictionary while Shakespeare had already composed how many words in his literature?
30,000
400
What do zero and one mean in Shannon's equation?
1 meaning open and 0 meaning closed
400
The first transcontinental phone line was made in?
1914
500
Who was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?
James Murray
500
By medieval times French and latin roots accounted for more than...
half the english language
500
When was the first alphabetical catalogue created?
1613
500
What were the three great waves of electrical communication?
1. Telegraphy 2. Telephony 3. Radio
500
What is the main point Godel made in his analysis of Principia Mathematica?
Paradoxes are fundamental to mathematics