| 单词 | lexicographer |
| 例句 | “Difficult do you call it, Sir?” the lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said after hearing a violinist perform. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A peek at the entries for these words in any dictionary will show that Macdonald was wrong about the inevitable degeneration of a language that is not policed by lexicographers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And there was a big court case going on at the time, where a slang lexicographer, Stephen Farmer, was being sued for putting in the c-word and the f-word in his dictionary. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z These days, lexicographers work from an updated digitized database. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent said the word was chosen for its popularity as well as its "linguistic productivity." Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z In a strange twist, Horowitz once worked at Merriam-Webster, too, as a lexicographer — defining words — after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a philosophy degree. Bringing Home Some ‘Hairy Joie de Vivre,’ and Taking Notes 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z I recall, with affection, the former chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, Robert Burchfield, a distinguished lexicographer who was always a sparkling refutation of Dr Johnson's celebrated definition. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z Named in honor of the 18th-century essayist and lexicographer, the Samuel Johnson Prize is open to English-language books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. Book about secretive NKorea wins UK literary prize 2010-07-01T20:09:00Z The vote involved more than 200 lexicographers, linguists, etymologists, historians, grammarians and others. Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Twitter now enjoys the imprimatur of our most august lexicographers. Oxford English Dictionary adds new sense of tweet to its Big Data 2013-06-20T12:04:39Z Both seasoned lexicographers, they realized that Americans were coining new words, using old ones in new ways and preserving usages the British had dropped. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in hot pursuit. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z Gretel, who works as a lexicographer updating dictionary entries, is haunted by the way her mother abandoned her when she was a teenager. Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But such uses weren’t interesting enough to lexicographers to be included in the O.E.D. entry for “toxic” published in 1913. ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z According to the site, the lexicographers at Dictionary.com revised, added or otherwise "touched" more than 7,600 entries in this update, in total. Dictionary.com adds hundreds of new entries for 2021, including a few very cromulent words 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “And speaking as a lexicographer, it’s also quite a productive one,” she continued. Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z He's a lexicographer, and he claims he has no mondegreens of his own. 6 geezers laying? Holidays bring on song botches 2013-12-11T14:48:03Z Kory Stamper, a lexicographer and the author of “Word by Word,” agrees that “female has a whiff of the bio lab.” Female Trouble: The Debate Over “Woman” as an Adjective 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z After all, lexicographers cannot pretend a word doesn’t exist just because someone doesn’t like it. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z An essayist for the Gentleman’s Magazine of 1891 echoes the lexicographers’ insistence that these words were common, opining that “the ‘bad language’ of the present day must be characterized as obscene rather than profane.” The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z Words lexicographers currently want to trace include cooties, disco and Bellini. Dictionary traces blue-arsed fly 2012-10-05T13:02:59Z His prose itself was often described as musical, and he had a lexicographer’s command of the language on which to draw. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Social media has been revolutionary in changing the access lexicographers have to the evolution of how words are used. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z To lexicographers it's just the 15th letter of the English alphabet. The story of O in design 2010-03-16T22:00:00Z Vigorous head shake from Décharné: The word was current in London 200 years ago, when lexicographer Francis Grose — the author’s hero and inspiration — defined it as “Knowing. Acquainted with another’s meaning or proceeding.” ‘Vulgar Tongues’ is pimped out with the dopest research 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z What is your working life like as a slang lexicographer? Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z Language does not pop up all shiny and new each time a lexicographer signs a contract to write a dictionary. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z And so dictionaries and lexicographers led the way in the early days of computer science and humanities computing. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Ghost words have nothing to do with otherworldly apparitions, but they're enough to scare the headwords off lexicographers. 7 fake words that actually ended up in the dictionary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Sheidlower, the lexicographer, said: “In times of stress, people will go to things that will provide answers. The Bible, the dictionary or alcohol.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Normally, Oxford’s lexicographers assemble a list of words that had a statistically relevant surge, then choose one. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z It might surprise dictionary-owners to know that most lexicographers do not think of their subject in this way at all. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The great slang lexicographer Eric Partridge had died a couple of years earlier. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z This “year end exercise,” the editors say, helps their lexicographers decide which words need to be updated and provides a pool of candidates for word of the year. Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2014 is 'Exposure' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The tribute to Johnson features his famous definition of “lexicographer”: “a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.” Merriam-Webster adds 'alt-right' and 'sriracha' and 250 more words to its dictionary 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “You know, Samuel Johnson was a reference book editor. He defined a lexicographer, a compiler of dictionaries, as a harmless drudge.” Frederick G. Ruffner Jr., titan of reference books, dies at 88 Linguists, like lexicographers, are descriptivists, studying the language as it is and describing it without trying to tell you what to do. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Writers who live between two languages face an extra challenge in their role as lexicographers of metaphor. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Aside from being a remarkably good detective, the learned doctor is a lexicographer and expert on drinking songs and drinking customs, past and present. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Some lexicographers thought the evidence was creeping closer to a World War II-era origin, and possibly some connection to the military, though there was still no hard evidence for the popular ammunition-belt theory. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z Martin, whose books include biographies of Johnson and James Boswell, portrays Webster as a crank and an embarrassingly flawed lexicographer. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z As well as parody accounts such as @DrSamuelJohson, in which the "gouty lexicographer" with a passion for capitalisation fulminates about modern life, Twitter abounds in literary quotations. Ben Jonson begins Twitter travel journal, rather late 2013-07-03T13:51:28Z Eric Partridge was the leading English language slang lexicographer of the 20th century. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z I don’t like to say this in a way as a lexicographer, but there are limits and you chase slang as far and as fast as you can. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z It is impossible to be a lexicographer without a degree of plagiarism. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z It said, “A team of 80 lexicographers are currently preparing the third edition of the OED, which is 28 percent complete.” A Print-Free Oxford Dictionary? 2010-08-30T16:29:00Z Me: Okay, without referring to your dictionary, please tell me how you personally, Michael Agnes, professional lexicographer, pronounce the word W-H-A-T. Perspective | How do you pronounce the word ‘what’? 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z "Dictionaries and lexicographers led the way in the early days of computer science and humanities computing. " Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary do not give a definite origin of this word. 7 Words English Borrowed From American Indians 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z But lexicographers don’t like to regard themselves as letting the trusty words in and keeping the bad guys out. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z To be a historical lexicographer, you’ve got to be interested a little bit in everything. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z They’ll often choose famous quotations from famous authors or descriptions of famous characters, the type of people who define our times just like those lexicographers define our words. David Bowie Is All Over the Oxford Dictionary 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He is variously a refugee, an emissary, a scholar, an exile, a lexicographer, a captive, rich, destitute, a Muslim and a Catholic. Summer voyages: Leo the African by Amin Maalouf 2013-07-19T12:57:30Z The Oxford report also highlights increased use of “in-person,” often in retronyms, as lexicographers refer to a new term for an existing thing that distinguishes the original from a new variant. Oxford’s 2020 Word of the Year? It’s Too Hard to Isolate 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z The editors and lexicographers at Dictionary.com see all these people and places that drove the news in 2014 connected through a single word: exposure, their pick for 2014′s word of the year. Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2014 is 'Exposure' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z There are only about 50 lexicographers working at dictionary companies in the United States today, Ms. Stamper estimated. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Hotten is the first slang lexicographer to come up with a considered treatment of the history of slang and indeed of cant, or criminal slang. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z There was also a violinist, an English banker and a lexicographer with a thing for kilts and vintage cocktails. If a Rat Falls Into Your Bed, Call Your Lover’s Boyfriend 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Tracing the patterns of these influences is the job of the historical lexicographer. A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Green says that in the few hours the site has been live, the usual suspects have emerged: linguists, fellow lexicographers, language lovers. Green's, the Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever, Just Went Online 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Sixteen full-time staffers and some visiting lexicographers work in offices and a library, which contains editions of all the surviving Latin texts from before A.D. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z That is according to responses to a tongue-in-cheek tweet from Countdown wordsmith and lexicographer Susie Dent. No disrespect but... Susie Dent shares words public want axed 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Almost all of these phrases originated in the 20th century, says lexicographer and author Kory Stamper, though they’ve really taken off from the 1980s onward. Changing how we talk can go a long way in banning toxic productivity from 2023 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z It was one of three potential choices selected by Oxford lexicographers. Oxford word of the year 2022 revealed as 'goblin mode' 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z They were chosen by a team of lexicographers from Oxford University Press - the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary - who felt they were "each relevant to the year in a different way". Public vote to decide Oxford word of the year for first time 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Collins's lexicographers said several words on the list relate to these crises. Permacrisis declared Collins Dictionary word of the year 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z “Watching that spell-off, you got a real sense of the actual work of preparing for the Bee,” said Kory Stamper, a lexicographer and the author of “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.” In a Blistering Final Spell-Off, Harini Logan, 14, Wins the National Bee 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z She joined mathematician Rachel Riley and lexicographer Susie Dent in an all female line-up on the daytime show, with her first instalment broadcast on 28 June. Countdown: Anne Robinson to step down as presenter 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z In February, Barry Popik, a historian and lexicographer who had been researching the pledge’s origin, was stunned to find a clipping on newspapers.com from the Ellis County News Republican of Hays, Kansas, dated May 21, 1892. We know the pledge. Its author, maybe not 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z He added: “These Robert lexicographers are introducing a word that barely exists in our country. That is militancy, that is not doing their jobs.” In a Nonbinary Pronoun, France Sees a U.S. Attack on the Republic 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Oxford Languages says its corpus, or language resource, gathers news content which is updated daily and contains over 14.5 billion words for lexicographers to search and analyse. 'Vax' declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Merriam-Webster’s lexicographers add hundreds of new words and definitions to the dictionary each year as language evolves. Merriam-Webster promoted a word game littered with offensive terms — the latest reckoning over language in the puzzle world 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z This year’s words were especially difficult, said Kory Stamper, a lexicographer and the author of “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.” Zaila Avant-garde Makes Spelling History, and Other Moments From the Bee 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z It was perhaps ironic that she became a lexicographer, she observed, because she was a “terribly untidy person.” Katherine Barber, maven of Canadian English, dies at 61 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In 1934, Allen Walker Read, an etymologist and lexicographer, laid out the history of the word that, then, had “the deepest stigma of any in the language.” Opinion | How the N-Word Became Unsayable 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Commentary from experts including a lexicographer, a cognitive scientist and a PhD specializing in the history of swearing is then used as grist for comics such as Sarah Silverman, Zainab Johnson and Nikki Glaser. Netflix's 'History of Swear Words' isn't even worth your expletives 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z “It’s the global aspect of this that’s so mind-blowing,” said Fiona McPherson, a lexicographer and senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. From COVID to curbside, 2020 changed our vocabulary too 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Particularly interesting to word nerds like Sokolowski, a lexicographer, is quarantine. Merriam-Webster’s top word of 2020 not a shocker: pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z In an interview with TVO, an educational television network in Ontario, Ms. Barber remarked that a good lexicographer must be a generalist able to “pop from nuclear physics to ballet to basketball.” Katherine Barber, maven of Canadian English, dies at 61 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Other pandemic terms are old but repurposed, prompting lexicographers to add updated meanings. Coronaspeak has gone viral, and the English language may never be the same 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z He grew into a pensive youth whose interest in linguistics earned him the unusual yearbook distinction of being named most likely to become a lexicographer. Robert Kehoe, honored for valor in World War II, dies at 98 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, Dr. Nunberg was a lexicographer — a writer of dictionaries. Geoffrey Nunberg, who explored how language shapes politics and insults, dies at 75 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z OUP’s lexicographers went back to the dictionary’s corpus - its huge collection of texts drawn from real life – to find examples “that would not perpetuate unnecessarily sexist stereotypes about housework”, said Martin. No more 'nagging wives': how Oxford Dictionaries is cleaning up sexist language 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z But when the Canadian Oxford was released in 1998, after more than six years of toil by Ms. Barber and the team of lexicographers she oversaw, it was hailed as a “monument.” Katherine Barber, maven of Canadian English, dies at 61 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z While the word is certainly colourful, it eventually fell out of common parlance, other than in legal circles, according to lexicographer and Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer. Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “Were we to ignore certain words on the grounds that they are offensive, we would be negligent in our duty as lexicographers,” Ms. Brewster said in her email. The Campaign to Redefine ‘Chinese Restaurant Syndrome’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “Margaret Atwood compared her to Joan of Arc. After noticing a hundredfold increase in its usage, lexicographers at Collins Dictionary named Thunberg’s pioneering idea, climate strike, the word of the year,” Time said. Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's Person of the Year 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The lexicographers ended up with “I was busy doing housework when the doorbell rang”. No more 'nagging wives': how Oxford Dictionaries is cleaning up sexist language 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Collins lexicographers pinpoint the origin of the term “climate strike” to demonstrations surrounding the same conference in France in 2015, when world leaders adopted the Paris climate accord. 2019 is the year of the ‘climate strike’ 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In advance of the lexicographers’ big reveal, here are my top 10 candidates. Cancelled for sadfishing: the top 10 words of 2019 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In the United States, the Merriam-Webster dictionary is particularly prominent, said Bryan A. Garner, a lexicographer and the author of “Garner’s Modern English Usage,” which is published by Oxford University Press. When Dictionaries Wade Into the Gender (Non)Binary 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Beyond the questions that Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed raises about his relationship to matters of writing style, Mr. Sokolowski, the lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, said that there is a larger issue here. Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z In the 13th century, the Arabic lexicographer Ibn Manzur described himself as a linguistic Noah – ushering words into a protective ark in order that they might survive the onslaught of laziness. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The term, which refers to people leaving work or school as a way to demand action on climate change, was used 100 times more often in 2019 compared to last year, Collins’ lexicographers found. 2019 is the year of the ‘climate strike’ 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z “Even the idea of the spectrum may be too narrow,” says the lexicographer Kory Stamper. Does thinking about things 'on a spectrum' make us more enlightened? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge notes it was “avoided in written and polite English” – though Shakespeare snuck it in anyway. Why is everyone suddenly using the C-word? | Stan Carey 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z This makes him a poor role model, said the lexicographer and writer Kory Stamper. Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z According to South Korean lexicographer Han Yong-woon, who is part of the Gyeoremal team, the dictionary will compile words from existing dictionaries across the two Koreas and add newer words and expressions. Two Koreas divided by a fractured language 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z As a scholar of 18th-century English literature, Dr. Hart was guided by the orderly writing and minds of historian Edward Gibbon, essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson and political philosopher Edmund Burke. Jeffrey Hart, conservative stalwart who denounced modern-day GOP, dies at 88 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z It is broadcast live on ESPN, like an Olympic event, with color commentary by lexicographers and up-close-and-personal interviews with the contestants. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Hence the eighteenth-century lexicographer’s admiration for explorers: “The adventurer upon unknown coasts, and the describer of distant regions” is to be welcomed, he declared, because they “enlarge our knowledge”. Explorers at sea: centuries of science afloat 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Its lexicographers said Thursday that “toxic” grew into “an intoxicating descriptor for the year’s most talked about topics.” The 2018 Oxford Word of the Year isn’t nice, it’s toxic 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Collins Dictionary lexicographers named it word of the year, after a four-fold rise in its use over five years. What is 2018's word of the year? 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In line with the times, the founding fathers used this style in the United States Constitution, said Kory Stamper, a lexicographer and the author of “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.” Trump Uses Random Uppercase Letters, but Should You? An Issue of Capital Importance 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Sietsema is a Greek Orthodox priest from Michigan, as well as a former linguistics professor and lexicographer. After 16 years, backup spelling bee pronouncer gets his shot 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Let’s leave “drain the swamp” for future lexicographers and historians to ponder. Opinion | Stop Calling Washington a Swamp. It’s Offensive to Swamps. 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z But the lexicographer Bernadette Paton, who excavated this exchange last summer, believed it was the first time anyone had used the word in recorded form. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It is too early to say what his legacy will be on language, says Ben Zimmer, a lexicographer who writes a column for The Wall Street Journal. 10 things we rarely said before Trump 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z She and other lexicographers who study look-up behavior believe it’s likely a combination of people who may not know a definition, are digging deeper or are seeking inspiration or emotional reinforcement of some sort. Dictionary.com chooses ‘complicit’ as its word of the year 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Site lexicographer Jane Solomon says numerous events, from politics to natural disasters, drove more people to look up “complicit” at particular times of the year. Dictionary.com chooses ‘complicit’ as its word of the year 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z “One of the things, as lexicographers, we’re thinking about very carefully is whether this is a word people will continue to look up,” Solomon said. A covfefe by any other name … might not have made dictionary.com’s most-queried list 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Much as lexicographers might fantasise about capturing and fixing meaning – as Johnson had once fantasised – a living language will always outrun them. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z For centuries few lexicographers bothered to record slang. A history of slang charts the change in taboos 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z That is the task of the lexicographer, the human who watches words spread and tracks the way people use them. The Dictionary Is Adding An Entry for 'Fake News' 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Google Doodle celebrates Johnson's achievements with an illustration of him and his book by Sophie Diao, alongside the definition of lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries. Google Doodle: The 308th Birthday of Lexicographer Samuel Johnson 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Broadcaster and lexicographer Susie Dent, best known for her appearances in Dictionary Corner on Channel 4's Countdown, said the poems would "shine a light into a lexicon that's too often overlooked". Ginnel or twitten? 12 regional words celebrated in poems - BBC News 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Yet it was a losing battle, or a specialised form of Zeno’s paradox: the closer that OED lexicographers got to the finish line, the more distant that finish line seemed to be. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But a few old works on “cant”—the language of the thieving underworld—give lexicographers like Mr Green a view of the unguarded, mostly unwritten language of centuries past. A history of slang charts the change in taboos 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The lexicographers generally aren’t doing anything more nefarious than defining terms in the news and reporting what words people are looking up at merriam-webster.com. Opinion | Trump says he has the ‘best words.’ Merriam-Webster disagrees. 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The dictionary's editor, Susan Butler, even said it was "the duty of lexicographers to, as much as is humanly possible, eat the food items that they put in the dictionary". Halal snack pack: The kebab that defined Australia in 2016 - BBC News 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The lexicographer warned that the rapid rise of Trumpisms did not guarantee the US president his own section when the OED is next updated. Oxford dictionary considers including wave of Trumpian neologisms 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z By the late 1960s, a computer-led approach known as “corpus linguistics” was forcing lexicographers to re-examine their deepest assumptions about the way language operates. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Yet it has been well served by lexicographers writing entertainingly about their work. A history of slang charts the change in taboos 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And who might the lexicographers have had in mind a month ago when they reported that they added back to the dictionary the word “snollygoster, ‘a shrewd & unprincipled person, especially an unprincipled politician’ ”? Opinion | Trump says he has the ‘best words.’ Merriam-Webster disagrees. 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z And with the benefit of complete hindsight, this eminent group of linguists and lexicographers looked back at the previous twelve months and chose dumpster fire. 'Dumpster Fire' Is the Word of the Year for 2016 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z New candidates for the latest update were vetted by Dictionary.com lexicographers searching everything from academic journals to pop-culture sources to user suggestions. From al desko to Zika, new dictionary words define life in 2016 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The general-language corpora that provide raw material for today’s dictionaries contain tens of billions of words, a database beyond the wildest imaginings of lexicographers even a generation ago. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Few lexicographers are lucky enough, then, to have both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly about it. A history of slang charts the change in taboos 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z But picture the poor lexicographer at the OED who wrote that to bog is a “low word, scarcely found in literature, however common in coarse colloquial language”. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a stereotype of other people’s stereotypes,” lexicographer Ben Zimmer says. The Surprising Origin of the Phrase 'Flyover Country' The lexicographer Samuel Johnson wrote, “May my country never be cursed with another such conquest!” The Mosquito-Borne Ailments That Changed the World Before Zika 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z For lexicographers, what’s really thrilling about corpus linguistics is the way it lets you spy on language in the wild. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “Words that pop up in small communities, or among friends on forums, are now publicly available to lexicographers.” Why dictionaries have started sanctioning even the dumbest Internet slang 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It very much looks as though the lexicographer used high language and a fancy archaism to “exonerate” dismay, thereby achieving the comfortable sense of having bogged bog. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Traditional print dictionaries employ lexicographers to track and assess words, selecting the worthiest candidates to be included in published editions. Scouring the Web to Make New Words ‘Lookupable’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Those signs are, Oxford editor Katherine Martin says, not chosen by lexicographers making emotional decrees but affixed as guidance for people who want to use the language intelligently. Why Dropping 'Anchor Baby' Is a Problem for Politicians 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z For lexicographers and Google alike, one linguistic frontier remains stubbornly inaccessible. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z At Merriam-Webster, lexicographers keep a close eye on what trends in user searches. Why dictionaries have started sanctioning even the dumbest Internet slang 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z With the proliferation of these databases, lexicographers, both scholarly and otherwise, have been able to find new early citations for many words and phrases. Y’all: It’s Older Than We Knew 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But Erin McKean, a lexicographer with an egalitarian approach to language, thinks “madeupical” words such as these deserve to be documented. Scouring the Web to Make New Words ‘Lookupable’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Here are the definitions that the lexicographers at M-W came up with for this latest reflection of who English speakers are and what we care about: Merriam-Webster Defines 'Jeggings,' 'NSFW' and 'Meme' 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z For lexicographers, speech is the most precious resource of all, and the most elusive. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z At Dictionary.com, they scrutinize the searches that turn up a “did you misspell that?” page: Often, said Jane Solomon, a Dictionary.com lexicographer, those misspellings are actually new words. Why dictionaries have started sanctioning even the dumbest Internet slang 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Later, he worked on encyclopedias and thesauruses, becoming one of America’s leading lexicographers. Reflecting as a Run Comes to an End 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Some lexicographers already track whether words are nearing the end of their useful life spans. Scouring the Web to Make New Words ‘Lookupable’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Collier’s first job after graduating from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst was as a lexicographer - a fancy name for a dictionary editor - for Merriam-Webster. An intimate relationship: Artist makes a family of raptors 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z “The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference,” James Murray once wrote, but modern lexicographers beg to differ. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z While the government’s top lexicographers develop the proper nomenclature for this … this happening, President Obama’s acting term of choice will be “cyber-vandalism.” John McCain’s latest saber-rattling: Another foreign policy problem for which “war” is the only answer 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s a moment, as Oxford’s Casper Grathwhol says, to remind people that lexicographers are working hard, all year long, to catalog the immense historical record that is our language. Words of the Year: How the Pithy Tradition Began 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Previously in the Magazine slang lexicographer Jonathon Green listed 62 words for being beaten at sport. Readers' 48 words for defeat 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The 18th Century English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said it best when he said: The Big List of Little Things That Destroy Your Customer Experience 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The digital era has enabled Oxford lexicographers to run dragnets deeper and deeper through the language, but it has also threatened to capsize the operation. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Why are there so many different words for being beaten, asks slang lexicographer Jonathon Green. Mullered and 61 other words for beaten at sport 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z "I remember the last pencam shot I took and feeling quite emotional about it," said the lexicographer. Demise of the printed dictionary? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z As a lexicographer, Thorne’s methodology is thorough; terms must be attested by at least two separate audited sources to warrant inclusion. Is Aussie slang dying out? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z She obtained the actor’s autograph and also became swept up in Ziolkowski’s efforts to raise money for a memorial he was building to honor a West Hartford native son, lexicographer Noah Webster Jr. - The Washington Post Although he trained as a lexicographer, he now mainly works as a consultant, advising publishers on how to use corpus-based resources. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In his examination of slang, lexicographer Jonathon Green says it's unclear where the whole nine yards comes from. Whole nine yards of what? 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Slang doesn’t take any prisoners. Slang is very uncompromising,” says the lexicographer. Meet the Man Who Knows 1,700 Words For Sex 2014-04-17T11:00:59Z What is your reaction to linguists or lexicographers who are persnickety, saying that Don would have said “have to” instead of “need to” or whatever it might be? How Mad Men Gets the Writing Right: Q&A 2014-04-10T16:11:57Z On the rare occasion that people think of lexicographers, they don’t usually imagine those scholars sitting around attempting to define the foulest words in the language. How a Bunch of C-Words Got Into the Oxford English Dictionary 2014-03-14T15:52:05Z The idea of making a perfect linguistic resource was one most lexicographers knew was folly, she continued. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In examining their lives, I noticed how obsessionality—a love of rules, order, details, cleanliness and lists—could be a big asset for a lexicographer. A Country Built By Obsessives 2013-08-06T11:15:00.580Z Like-minded lexicographers could always escape to the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the longest place name in the UK. So long, long words? 2013-06-04T11:51:53Z Every word or phrase has a story, and the historical lexicographer has to tease this story out from whatever documentation can be found. The word detective 2013-05-03T00:01:53Z But they and others — including lexicographers — contend that dictionaries are of limited value in deciphering statutes. Dictionary: A way to define an argument 2013-02-03T22:23:57Z But then, part of the thrill of being a lexicographer is knowing that the work will never be done. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Garner, a prominent lexicographer and authority on usage, also collaborated with Justice Scalia on an earlier book, “Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.” In Scalia’s New Book, Hints of Health Ruling 2012-06-15T15:00:58Z Samuel Johnson, the poet and lexicographer, said in 1758: "When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather." How can you talk interestingly about the weather? 2012-06-06T08:45:05Z So the historical lexicographer will of course be able to find evidence for the expression New Model Army all the way back to 1645 or thereabouts. The word detective 2013-05-03T00:01:53Z Suddenly, television executives and public interest lobbyists were doubling as lexicographers. F.C.C. Weighs Treating Video Sites Like Cable Companies 2012-05-23T00:30:59Z At the level that matters, though – the level that lexicographers fret and obsess about – few things could be more complex. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The great lexicographer knew Fleet Street better than he did the fleet, and his opinion, as expressed above, was hardly even decently patriotic or sensible. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Ah, sir, I remember the beautiful words of Dr. Johnson, great lexicographer: 'And every moment makes my little less.' Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z If it is lucky, it may be preserved in a specialist lexicographer’s dictionary in the way that a dried specimen of a vanished butterfly lingers in a museum cabinet. Preserving rare languages: Embracing the future 2012-02-23T17:07:45Z The dreary men with frayed boots were only counting the slow minutes of divine service before the public-houses could open: they knew nothing of the lexicographer. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Speaking to lexicographers makes one wary of using the word “literally”, but a definitive dictionary is, literally, impossible. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Had he lived to see Dr. Webster's Dictionary, the lexicographer would have found in him an ardent champion. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z That appears, not only from the rejection of the word by all lexicographers, but from one of the manuscripts of Meigant, which actually writes it nawv. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z The name of Dr. Freund is probably known to many of our readers as that of the most profound lexicographer of the present day, so far as the Latin language is concerned. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 98, September 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-05T03:00:41.160Z It was evident that he cherished a post-mortem grudge against the great lexicographer, as well as a posthumous craving for fame, and wished to use me as the instrument of his reputation and his revenge. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z More than 2,000 enthusiasts from across the world and all walks of life assembled some 5m quotations to feed Murray’s team of lexicographers as they churned through the alphabet, defining words as they went. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Webster, the Christian lexicographer, admits that Buddhism was "characterized by admirable humanity and morality." Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z The explanation of figurative expressions, again, must be left to the rhetorician, and definition to the lexicographer; the grammarian has no more to do with them than he has with the canons of criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The only example of the termination in -wardly given by this lexicographer is from Donne, where it means toward the west. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z All I feel concerned to say here is, that the praise of this anecdote belongs to the little printer, and not to the great lexicographer. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z “It’s completely changed what we do,” the lexicographer Michael Rundell told me. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Johnson, Dr. Samuel: An eminent English essayist, poet, and lexicographer. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z The appellation, says a Persian lexicographer, was first bestowed by a sovereign of Persia, who, on observing his crafty counsellors in high conclave, exclaimed, Inan diwan end—“these men are devils.” Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z What do the real linguists and lexicographers say about it? God bless Americanisms 2011-07-26T02:52:51Z In the compilation of this work the chief burden seems to have been borne by Facciolati’s pupil Forcellini, to whom, however, the lexicographer allows a very scanty measure of justice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z All of this is, lexicographers say, sort of strange. Sidebar: Dictionary Citations by Justices Rise Sharply 2011-06-13T15:55:49Z Turn over the prefaces of our elder lexicographers. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z “The great lexicographer,” as Miss Pinkerton called him, placed no high value on the performance of his friend, but the publisher found in the “Vicar of Wakefield” a gold mine. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Webster, our great lexicographer, gave thirty-five years of his life in bringing his Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language to the degree of accuracy and completeness in which we now find it. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z This is part of a growing trend to "reclaim" words that have been given a negative connotation, says TV lexicographer Susie Dent. Why is the word 'slut' so powerful? 2011-05-09T16:38:18Z At New Haven the Yale College students came out in a body, keeping step to the music of a band of which Noah Webster, the future lexicographer, then a freshman, was the leader. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z But the perfect absurdity or curiosity of a rhyming lexicographer appears in one of Walker’s Dictionaries of the English Language. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The lexicographers mention as characteristics of the Eupatridae that they are the autochthonous population, the dwellers in the city, the descendants of the royal stock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Eldad is quoted as an authority on linguistic difficulties by the leading medieval Jewish grammarians and lexicographers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z This lexicon came to be the groundwork on which subsequent lexicographers, recognizing its merit, built up their larger works. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Nevertheless, there was a lag between lexicographers and the lexicon. [Research Article] Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books 2011-01-13T19:26:01.023Z The researchers did not confine themselves to poking fun at lexicographers, though. Culturomics: Reading by numbers 2010-12-16T14:00:04Z His father was a philologist and lexicographer, whose home was comfortable and refined, and whose friends were cultured and literary. A Divided Heart and Other Stories Sur�ri, the lexicographer, who compiled a dictionary in 1599, considers the b�j�dah "a red ruby which possesses the property of attraction." On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Neither Boswell’s father nor his wife shared his enthusiasm for the lexicographer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Between a maxim, an aphorism, and an apophthegm, and in a more obvious degree, between these and an adage and a proverb, the etymologist and the lexicographer may easily find a distinction. Maxims and Reflections Mr. J. E. Worcester, the lexicographer, shared the house with Longfellow, as did for a time Miss Sally Lowell, an aunt of the poet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A lexicographer, deservedly forgotten, has defined it as an exchange of fancies, the contact of two epiderms. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel In accordance with the views now entertained by the best lexicographers, the word translated in our version "creeping things" has been rendered "prolific or swarming creatures." The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science His lexicon is an alphabetical dictionary of words including the names of persons and places—a compilation of extracts from Greek writers, grammarians, scholiasts and lexicographers, very carelessly and unequally executed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" They are the citations of lexicographers and grammarians, made either as illustrations of the Æolic tongue or as examples of metre. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Scott, the lexicographer, sends him Greek epigrams on events too fugitive to be now worth recalling—discusses Homeric points, and while not surrendering at discretion, admits them worthy of much consideration. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The english, and american lexicographers had been very much mistaken in saying that the word Machiavelism is synonymous of political cunning, and artifice. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America The lexicographer has on a new suit of clothes and a wig finely powdered, and looks uncommon through this unexpected scrupulosity of costume. Oliver Goldsmith The facts with regard to these things which the wide research necessitated by the historical method furnishes abundantly to the modern lexicographer are often among the most novel and interesting of his acquisitions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" A corporeal God, as often defined by lexicographers and scholastic theologians, is only an infinite finite being, an unlimited man,—a theory to me inconceivable. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 There is no obvious vulgarity in the lexicographer's definitions of the word "sex." Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life They agree in their inconsistencies, and have brought over other lexicographers in some cases to their disposition to double the l. Noah Webster American Men of Letters What words to come from the mouth of the great moralist and lexicographer! Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The genius that throws its prophetic eye over the language, and the taste that must come from Heaven, no lexicographer imagines are required to accompany him amidst a library of old books! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 A live lexicographer, given to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, might add to the above definition the “laying on of hands,” as well. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Before this date our knowledge was largely derived from the statements of scholiasts and lexicographers which had not seldom been misunderstood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Even this labour of the lexicographer, 73 so copious and so elaborate, must have been projected with rapture, and pursued with pleasure, till, in the progress, “the mind was musing on many things.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors We have lost many exquisite and picturesque expressions through the dulness of our lexicographers, or by the deficiency in that profounder study of our writers which their labours require far more than they themselves know. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 We believe the word has escaped the attention of the ancient lexicographers, and even Worcester, and the still more durable "Webster," have no note of the word, its derivation, or present sense. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes The great lexicographer knew man in general much better than Crabbe did; but he nowhere shows anything like Crabbe's power of seizing and reproducing man in particular. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 He was no 'speculatist'—a word which now strikes us as having an American twang, but which was familiar to the lexicographer. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The Colloquies were rendered into fine, nervous English by N. Bailey, the old lexicographer. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) We have not dropped the fortunate expression from any want of its use, but of perception in our lexicographers. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Dr. Webster, with all his great merits as a lexicographer, loved to meddle with the language too much. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 The literature of the Johnsonian period has assumed, in spite of the lexicographer's own dislike of that adjective, prodigious dimensions. James Boswell Famous Scots Series Dr. L. adds: "No dictionary in my possession has rub-a-dub; by and by the lexicographer will admit this, as yet, half-wild word." Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc A consolidation and annihilation!—You certainly have bid defiance to the first rudiments of grammar, and sworn war against the whole body of lexicographers. The Politician Out-Witted The later lexicographers, as Schleusner and Bretschneider, have not avoided these vague statements; and the last of them is particularly defective in his article on this phrase. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Here Pope is reported to have said of Patrick, the lexicographer, that "a dictionary-maker might know the meaning of one word, but not of two put together." All About Coffee C. Merriam:—Gentlemen, I have just had the honor of receiving the noble volume in which you and the great lexicographer, and the accomplished reviser, unite your labors to "bid the language live." A Handbook of the English Language The word “grace” is defined by lexicographers as favor or mercy. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity If the term δοὑλος signifies "a hired servant," or "an apprentice," it is certainly a most extraordinary circumstance that the best lexicographers of the Greek language have not made the discovery. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject You must ever remember that it is the business of lexicographers in giving the history of words, to set before you the first as well as the latest use of terms. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 According to the lexicographers, the meaning—as far as the word is concerned—is plain enough. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Therein for the first time, the Constitution defines the term citizen, and, in harmony with our best lexicographers, declares a citizen to be a person possessed of the right to vote. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Had he been a lexicographer he would have found the term magnetism far more inclusive. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression If such, indeed, be found among the meanings of the word, these celebrated lexicographers were as ignorant of the fact as ourselves. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In their wake come troops of physicians, theologians, lexicographers, Talmudists, and grammarians. Jewish Literature and Other Essays One can talk lightly, but nicely; while buffoonery is just what the lexicographers define it to be: "Amusing others by clownish tricks and by commonplace pleasantries." Conversation What to Say and How to Say it The word "deny" would be elucidated by able lawyers and lexicographers. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II It is as a lexicographer, however, that Barker is chiefly known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" This corpus of French texts was an important resource not only for lexicographers, but also for many other types of humanists and social scientists engaged in French studies — on both sides of the Atlantic. Multilingualism on the Web But, wherever used, it was designed to convey the meaning given to it, by both of our great lexicographers. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply The gruff old lexicographer had lived a robust life; he had faced many temptations, and had not always retired from the conflict victorious. Stories of Authors, British and American These authorities consist of lexicographers, English and American, and legal and political writers. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Therefore he reasoned that “epiphenomenon” had been built up to accommodate some modern theory of thought, some new leprosy of the mind never dreamed of by the noble lexicographer. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Language today is a new magazine for people working in applied languages: translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers and technical writers. Multilingualism on the Web The great lexicographer might take up and put down a good many children nowadays before he found the right one; and we need not think the worse of them on that account. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 A word means something; despite the maunderings of the lexicographers, it does not mean whatever you want it to mean. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 After the death of the late Dean Scott, the great lexicographer, it was decided to raise a memorial to him in his cathedral. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See A few hundred yards off is a headland called “Doctor Johnson’s Head,” because the rocks at the extremity present somewhat the appearance of a human face with massive features, like those of the great lexicographer. A Yacht Voyage Round England Furthermore, it must be conceded that almost all our lexicographers have been nearly or quite as ready as Dr. Webster to attempt improvements in orthography, though they may have shown more discretion than he. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 And to Hildegarde's mingled horror and amusement, the child curled himself up on the piazza floor, and deliberately laid his head on the broad black side of the sleeping lexicographer. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls With commendable reticence lexicographers tell us that ‘rukh’ was the name of a bird of mighty wing. Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects "Nay," said the pious and great lexicographer, "it is an honest picture of human nature." Confessions of a Book-Lover GHOST-WORDS The readiness of lexicographers to copy from each other sometimes leads to ludicrous results. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) We have also the testimony of the Grecian lexicographer, Suidas, that various maladies were cured by the repetition of certain words, in the time of Minos, King of Crete. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Though ignored by lexicographers, it was an article and word in established and universal use in the colonies. Home Life in Colonial Days I need not to be reminded that some lexicographers define "Blowen" to be a rude woman. Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. And as a barrel is described by our best lexicographers to be “any thing hollow,” what vehicle more appropriate could be found? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 It is recognized by the lexicographers, and I think is generally accounted, even by the careful, permissible in conversation, though incompatible with dignified diction. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Among the great host of fish-names there are several referring, somehow or other, to the Grey Mullet, which puzzle both naturalist and lexicographer. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield There are many words in our language about whose pronunciation the best orthoepists and lexicographers differ greatly. A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families Man has been defined by some lexicographer as a “cooking animal.” Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn But Billy’s grand forte, in his own opinion, was a lexicographer. The King's Own This word is often heard with the incorrect addition of a syllable, casuality, which is not recognized by the lexicographers. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Art has been defined by an English lexicographer as “Doing something, the power for which is acquired by experience, study or observation;” and an artist, as “One skilled in the practice of any art.” Style in Singing The lexicographer regarded his wife disapprovingly, and rebuked her: "You are astonished—I am surprised." Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Among the statues of the men of peace, that of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer, particularly interested me. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland The lexicographer's love of truth and loyalty to his pet monarch struggle with each other in the equivocal compliment to Charles's virtue in rewarding excellence 'with such honorary distinctions at least as cost him nothing.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) English literature during the eighteenth century presents no more distinguished name than that of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer and essayist. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Thus writes the Welsh lexicographer on this matter. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Webster, Worcester, and possibly other lexicographers give the latter pronunciation the preference. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective We might refer to the opinions of lexicographers, all unanimous in ascribing the same idea to the word; but the authorities given above are conclusive. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity In addition to these, Boswell's incomparable "Life of Johnson" presents a series of vivid pictures of the life of the period, and contains many anecdotes of the friendship between Reynolds and the great lexicographer. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation We cannot picture G.K. like the great lexicographer accompanied constantly by one ardent and observant witness, pencil in hand, ready to take notes over the teacups. Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not taken from any forged book fathered upon the bishop of Hierapolis, but from a genuine work of another Papias, a Latin lexicographer of the eleventh century. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" In fact, with two or three exceptions, they hung together and irated me in good round English, forward and backward with little regard to Johnson or any of the time-honoured lexicographers. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton The house in Gough Square has special claims to attention, as it was there that the great lexicographer chiefly compiled his dictionary. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 It is told of him, that having no dictionary in his father's house, he undertook to be his own lexicographer in the task of preparing one. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 Common usage alone determines upon what syllable the accent should be placed, and to the lexicographer it belongs, to ascertain and record its decision on this point. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader In LA a word antilum is used, which does not appear to occur anywhere else, and is unknown to our lexicographers. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints If he had been a lexicographer, he would have rigidly excluded them from his dictionary, both as meaningless and useless. All Around the Moon The same orthography is adopted by other lexicographers. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 The American lexicographer Webster gives, strangely enough albus coccus as its derivation. Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 He was born in September, 1751, and was the son of Thomas Sheridan, the actor and lexicographer, His mother, Frances Sheridan, was also a writer of plays and novels. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction If American lexicographers would only read the literature of American settlement they would know that Mr. Skeat's citation of a translation of Buffon is nearly two centuries too late. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Let any widow with daughters make the case her own, and imagine herself domesticated in Argyll or Harley Street with the lexicographer. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings I desire you to consult one of our standard lexicographers. Elsie's children They certainly tried which could ‘pepper the highest,’ and it is not clear to me that the lexicographer was really the highest seasoner. Reviews This is the province of the lexicographer, rather than of the philologist. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures This was not the opinion of the great English lexicographer, who describes the word as— "Odds; a noun substantive, from the adjective odd." and he defines its meaning as "inequality," or incommensurateness. Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 All came out of the carriage except the great lexicographer, who was crouching in what 089 my uncle jokingly called the Poets' Corner, deeply interested evidently with the book he was reading. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings The great lexicographer had, however, a high estimation of this official. The Parish Clerk The former of these lexicographers would rank the Pythian priestess with "our modern conjurers." Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 —Dramatist, s. of James K., schoolmaster and lexicographer, was b. at Cork. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Associated words: lexicography, lexicographer, lexicographic. dido, n. trick, antic, caper, prank. die, v. expire, perish, decease; wither, fade, vanish, recede, wane, subside, languish. die, n. dice; stamp. differ, v. be unlike; disagree. Putnam's Word Book The sailor and traveller … the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations "Madam," said George, "do you not know that the great lexicographer has said in one of his admirable works, 'Let no man suffer his felicity to depend upon the death of his aunt'?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 The word is defined in the dictionary of Wieland, the principal lexicographer in that country, as follows: 'Kweesten. Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America —Moralist, essayist, and lexicographer, s. of a bookseller at Lichfield, received his early education at his native town, and went in 1728 to Oxf., but had, owing to poverty, to leave without taking a degree. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Many good writers, even some devoid of the lexicographers' passion for inclusion and approval, have specifically defended this locution, backing their example by their precept. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Bailey, Nathan, an early English lexicographer, whose dictionary, very popular in its day, was the basis of Johnson's; d. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge One of his sons, Edward, was the father of Thomas Cokayne, the lexicographer. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Labor," says Gadicke, the German masonic lexicographer, "is an important word in Masonry; indeed, we might say the most important. The Symbolism of Freemasonry But these were the dreams of a poet, doomed at last to wake a lexicographer. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces These lexicographers add, "The Spartan black broth was made with blood," and refer to Manso's Sparta, a German work, which I have not the advantage of consulting. Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Suidas, name of a grammarian and lexicographer of the 10th or 11th century; his "Lexicon" is a kind of encyclopædic work, and is valuable chiefly for the extracts it contains from ancient writers. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The house where the "great lexicographer" was born is still to be seen in the market-place, very little altered from its original condition. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association Not for long, however; the unanimous rancour of so many men of influence and rank had successfully ruined the fortune and broken the spirit of the old piratical lexicographer. Gossip in a Library Sheridan and Walker, being lexicographers, confined themselves chiefly to orthography and pronunciation. The Grammar of English Grammars But we have a great deal to be proud of in the lifelong labors of that old lexicographer, and we mustn't be ungrateful. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 We fear that the lexicographer found his easy chair so easy that he did not take the trouble to get out of it to consult the dictionary. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 Thus, by the friendly hand of the hard-working, earnest old lexicographer, Mr. Compton was led from deep poverty up to a secure competency, and a place among the influential dignitaries of London society. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 When he happened to differ from the great lexicographer, he would never yield an iota of his ground. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 The propriety or impropriety of these additions to the language, is not to be determined by dictionaries; for that must be settled by usage before any lexicographer will insert them. The Grammar of English Grammars A dictionary, as Johnson conceived it, was in fact work for a "harmless drudge," the definition of a lexicographer given in the book itself. Samuel Johnson As applied to commerce, it signifies, according to the lexicographers, "to subject to rules or restrictions, as to regulate trade," etc. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 4: James Buchanan Eugene Debs To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value. The Devil's Dictionary Permit me to introduce myself —I am the great lexicographer," we shall say "Tell that to some other angel. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers Hence, as every scholar knows, the least scrupulous of our lexicographers notice many terms but to censure them as "low," and omit many more as being beneath their notice. The Grammar of English Grammars We agreed that our work would be incomplete, and therefore vain, unless we secured a picture of the book with which the great lexicographer knocked down Osborne, the bookseller at Gray's Inn Gate. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac If an American ship be "proceeding from" the port of Liverpool to some port in the United States, how soon does she enter on what lexicographers call "the state of being" homeward-bound? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The Devil's Dictionary His father's name was Isaac Adams and his mother's maiden name was Eunice Webster--she was a niece of Noah Webster, the great American lexicographer. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men In this sense, as well as in the former, Webster, Chalmers, and other modern lexicographers, call the words nouns; and the reader will perceive, that the objections offered before do not apply here. The Grammar of English Grammars This was too much for the young lexicographer's patience. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac He silenced his questioner instantly with a happy play upon the name common to himself and the lexicographer: "In Webster's Dictionary, Sir!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! The Devil's Dictionary His mother was the daughter of Noah Webster, LL.D., the lexicographer. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men The propriety of these is at least questionable; and, as they are neither very necessary to the language, nor recognized by any of our lexicographers, I forbear to approve them. The Grammar of English Grammars Thick, heavy folios, containing the labors of lexicographers, commentators, and encyclopedists, were flung in, and, falling among the embers with a leaden thump, smouldered away to ashes like rotten wood. Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") In this way a false standard is manufactured, to which the lexicographer must conform, if he would have a remunerative sale for his book. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. The Devil's Dictionary And "who shall decide" when a lexicographer and a bishop "disagree?" Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century Our lexicographers call it an impersonal verb, because, being compounded with an objective, it cannot have a nominative expressed. The Grammar of English Grammars The rower in time reaches the port; the lexicographer at last finds the conclusion of his alphabet.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 He evidently thought that the business of a lexicographer was to regulate, not to record. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. The Devil's Dictionary The sailor and traveler—the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian, and lexicographer, are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets, and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy We need not say what a flood of sacred song has arisen since, and drowned the dictum of the lexicographer in the waves. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes May I fondly hope that to the maker of so large an Index will be extended the gratitude which Lord Bolingbroke says was once shown to lexicographers? Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Even a lexicographer may nod, but it surely requires no intellectual power surpassing the achievement of women to refrain from regularly mis-spelling some of the commonest English words. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. The Devil's Dictionary The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian, and lexicographer, are not poets; but they are the lawgivers of poets, and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. Poems By Walt Whitman Next in value follow the lexicographers, the grammarians, and commentators. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities It is a kind of privilege attached to the office of lexicographer; if not by any formal grant, yet by connivance at least. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 To get a clue in Ireland we must slip by those seven centuries of struggle and study national origins, as the lexicographer, to get the exact meaning of a word, traces it to its derivation. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. The Devil's Dictionary The great lexicographer had a heart to be won by apparent affection; he stood forth authoritatively in support of his vassal. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography In the seventh century, Jacob of Edessa gave the classical and sacred dialect its final form, and from this time the series of native grammarians and lexicographers continued unbroken to the time of its decline. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities He won his name of "the great lexicographer" by his Dictionary, which we no longer consult, but which we remember as the first attempt at a complete English lexicon. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived In this task the Stoics displayed a subtlety which is of more interest to the lexicographer than to the student of philosophy. Guide to Stoicism For a man who unconsciously has made so much fun for others as "the great lexicographer," Dr. Johnson seems to have been curiously devoid of a sense of humor. Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" The doctor was from home at the time, and Bozzy and Mrs. Williams, in a critical conference over the letter, determined from the style that it must have been written by the lexicographer himself. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Antony Furetière was more famous as a lexicographer, and through his angry contention with the French Academy on the subject of his Dictionary, than as a poet. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.' A History of English Literature "That," said he, "is Doctor Worcester, the lexicographer." The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Howsoever, we arrived not long after that at a field hospital—namely, Field Hospital Number 36, and here was realism enough to satisfy the lexicographer who first coined the word. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front Still the vivacity of the general's mind and the variety of his knowledge made him skip from subject to subject too fast for the lexicographer. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography All your lexicographers agree that "kind" means a "race," which is absurd, because a horse-race, for instance, is anything but kind. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 Critic, moralist, lexicographer, and, above all, the hero of Boswell's Life of Johnson. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe I hardly think the word is employed by lexicographers with this meaning, and I apologize for using the expression; but this kind of an odd spell is what I call smudging. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out All such questions, however, are for the grammarian or lexicographer, and not for the logician. Deductive Logic It was a reproof in the lexicographer's own style, and he may have felt that he merited it; but he was not accustomed to be reproved. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Not infrequently he is resolved to be a critic "in spite of nature," as Sir Joshua has it in a delicious phrase which was possibly given him by his friend "the great lexicographer." Without Prejudice When he visited it, a circumstance occurred which was truly characteristical of our great lexicographer. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. The practice is very useful to the traveller, and the despair of the lexicographer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 It was not deciphered, in fact, until several years after the explorers had submitted their finds to the world's foremost lexicographers, antiquarians and paleontologists. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Foote had no disposition to undergo the criticism of the cudgel wielded by such potent hands, so the farce of The Orators appeared without the caricatures of the lexicographer and the essayist. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography The ablest lexicographers define it as 'strong, well-strung, full of nerve,' whereas, in ordinary parlance, it has come to signify the very opposite of these. At Last Every other authour may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language As they are almost all local in their application, and therefore are not explained in such restricted sense by lexicographers, the specification may not be useless to the Oriental student. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 My dear mother, do you remember ever to have read or heard the celebrated reply of a certain urbane lexicographer to the rashly ambitious individual who attempted to find fault with his dictionary? St. Elmo Really, the ambition of the man to illustrate his mental insignificance, by continually placing himself in juxtaposition with the great lexicographer, has something in it perfectly ludicrous. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Suidas, a Greek lexicographer of the eleventh century, expresses tradition when he says, "Adam was the author of arts and letters." Atlantis : the antediluvian world No such word as cassesi is known to the lexicographers or commentators; and no plausible emendation has yet been suggested. The Decameron, Volume I When first the Arabist in Europe landed at Alexandria he could not exchange a word with the people the same is told of Golius the lexicographer at Tunis. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 More important difficulties of interpretation are illustrated by the attitude of M. Bergaigne in La Religion Vedique, and his controversy with the great German lexicographers. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 He could not, like the great lexicographer, mold his ideas and balance his periods while talking. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Such understanding as this may belong to lexicographers and students, but not to ordinary mortals in ordinary life. The Analysis of Mind Literature had almost ceased to exist except among lexicographers and grammarians; and though epigrams, Christian and pagan, continued to be written, they are for the most part of no literary account whatever. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 In fact, the lexicographer so mixes up his definitions that, we are unable to distinguish anything in particular, but his own individual ignorance. The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 This madcap freak of the great lexicographer made a sensation, as may well be supposed, among his intimates. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac, This is the lexicographer, this the chemist, this made a grammar of the old cartouches, These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas. Leaves of Grass The great lexicographer, spoiled by the homage of society, was still more prone than himself to lose temper when the argument went against him. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography |
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