Twelve Dictionaries

No, this is not like the twelve days of Christmas. I was looking at my bookshelves and, although I have more reference works than these dictionaries, for a book that can be properly called a dictionary I have twelve. Non-electronic. If I factor digital ones then I have even more.

For my entertainment and your astonishment, I shall list them here in no particular order:

Brewer's Britain and Ireland, meaning of place names

Collins German Concise, German/English

Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Geir T. Zoëga

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

The New College Latin and English Dictionary

Collins Pocket French, French/English

Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Latin/English

The Pelican Rhyming Dictionary

A Concise Anglo Saxon Dictionary, J.R. Clark

Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Stelton

The Oxford Concise English Dictionary

The Oxford Latin Dictionary

and I use them all. Well, except that Rhyming Dictionary. It has been years since I looked at that one. Now you know.