Melvil Decimal System: 423.1

Wording: Language > English > Dictionaries of standard English > Speller-dividers--English language

Dewmoji: 💬 > 🇬🇧 > 📕 > ?

0 Information 196,271 ℹ️	1 Philosophy and Psychology 182,817 💭	2 Religion 463,618 🙏🏽	3 Social Sciences 1,017,722 👫	4 Language 130,463 💬	5 Mathematics and Science 322,970 🔬	6 Technology 751,858 💡	7 Arts and Recreation 695,836 🎨	8 Literature 929,792 📚	9 Biography and History 592,368 🗿
40 Language 9,811 💬	41 Linguistics 14,563 🏷	42 English 51,037 🇬🇧	43 German 10,022 🇩🇪	44 French 7,761 🇫🇷	45 Italian 3,055 🇮🇹	46 Spanish 9,210 🇪🇸	47 Latin 2,109 📜	48 Greek 2,080 🇬🇷	49 Other Languages 20,815 🗨
420 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 4,965 🇬🇧	421 Writing system, phonology, phonetics of standard English 1,858	422 Etymology of standard English 694	423 Dictionaries of standard English 4,906 📕	424 [Formerly "Synonyms; Homonyms"; No longer used] 99 🤷	425 Grammar of standard English 1,688	426 [Formerly "Prosody"; No longer used] 79 🤷	427 Historical and geographic variations, modern nongeographic variations of English 1,838	428 Standard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics) 34,726 🚫	429 Old English 184 ᵹ
423.0 159	423.1 Speller-dividers--English language 1,363	423.2 5	423.3 86	423.4 42	423.5 41	423.6 33	423.7 2	423.8 6	423.9 218
423.10 1	423.11 1	423.12 Antonym dictionaries--English language 100	423.13 Idioms--dictionaries--English language 30	423.14 3	423.15 Abbreviation dictionaries--English language 9	423.16	423.17 Picture dictionaries--English language 52	423.18 1	423.19

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Speller-dividers--English language

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MDS classes with significant recommendations overlap, excluding ones under the same top-level class.

MDS	Schedule	Ratio	Count
031	Information > Dictionaries And Encyclopedias > American	12.6	101
808.0	Literature > By Topic > Anthologies and rhetoric > Rhetoric; Other Writing Instruction	9.6	172
03X	Information > Dictionaries And Encyclopedias	9.3	121
808	Literature > By Topic > Anthologies and rhetoric	6.3	348
80X	Literature > By Topic	4.7	423
39X	Social Sciences > Customs, Etiquette, Folklore	2.2	138
973	Biography and History > North America > United States	2	129

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