Name

Douglas Faragher

Biography

His English-Manx dictionary, published in the 1970s, introduced twentieth-century vocabulary to a language that had been frozen in the nineteenth, giving speakers the words they needed to live in Manx, not merely to pray in it.

Active Period

fl. 1970s

Place

Isle of Man

Period

Modern Era

Role / Office

Lexicographer

Language Revivalist

Book Chapter

Chapter 18