Word of the Day for Friday, February 25, 2011
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lexicography \lek-suh-KAH-gruh-fee\, noun:
lexicography \lek-suh-KAH-gruh-fee\, noun:
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1. The writing or compiling of dictionaries; the editing or making of dictionaries.
1. The writing or compiling of dictionaries; the editing or making of dictionaries.
2. The principles and practices applied to writing dictionaries.
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When updating the lexicography for their latest dictionary, the authors noted the following:
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B.O. -- A shortened version of the term body odor, which is an unpleasant odor from a perspiring or unclean person; more recently the term is also used to refer to Barack Obama, which serendipitously refers to an unpleasant and stinky president!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I heroically preserves our rapidly disappearing folk expressions, and many of the rich, salty words and phrases found in its 904 pages could encourage a taste for lexicography.-- Shirley Horner, review of "Dictionary of American Regional English", New York Times, December 8, 1985
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I heroically preserves our rapidly disappearing folk expressions, and many of the rich, salty words and phrases found in its 904 pages could encourage a taste for lexicography.-- Shirley Horner, review of "Dictionary of American Regional English", New York Times, December 8, 1985
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Jim is a dictionary writer by trade, one of those sedentary wordsmiths who spend their lives in the library and retire with watery eyes and schoolteacher salaries--except he found a way to abandon lexicography and make a windfall fortune in the Internet economy.-- Christopher McDougall, "The Secret of Vuleefore", Outside magazine, September 2000
Jim is a dictionary writer by trade, one of those sedentary wordsmiths who spend their lives in the library and retire with watery eyes and schoolteacher salaries--except he found a way to abandon lexicography and make a windfall fortune in the Internet economy.-- Christopher McDougall, "The Secret of Vuleefore", Outside magazine, September 2000
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The final arrangement of "set," achieved under the by then septuagenarian Murray, is perhaps lexicography's Eroica Symphony.-- Hugh Kenner, "Ode on an OED" review of The Oxford English Dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary,New York Times, April 16, 1989
The final arrangement of "set," achieved under the by then septuagenarian Murray, is perhaps lexicography's Eroica Symphony.-- Hugh Kenner, "Ode on an OED" review of The Oxford English Dictionary, The Oxford English Dictionary,New York Times, April 16, 1989
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I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.-- Samuel Johnson, preface to his Dictionary of the English Language
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.-- Samuel Johnson, preface to his Dictionary of the English Language
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Lexicography is derived from the Greek lexicon (biblion), a word- or phrase-book (from lexis, a phrase, a word) + graphein, to write. A lexicographer (thought to be formed on the pattern of geographer) is a compiler or writer of a dictionary -- as defined by Samuel Johnson in his own Dictionary of the English Language, "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge."
Lexicography is derived from the Greek lexicon (biblion), a word- or phrase-book (from lexis, a phrase, a word) + graphein, to write. A lexicographer (thought to be formed on the pattern of geographer) is a compiler or writer of a dictionary -- as defined by Samuel Johnson in his own Dictionary of the English Language, "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge."
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