Thanks to all who wrote advising me of the relaxed deadline at Marriott. But I find that the prospect of being able to take my own tea and having facilities in...
Orin Hargraves
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May 1, 2003 11:17 am
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What a neat surprise to hear you being interviewed on CBC tonight, Erin! Interesting conversation about 'shut up' and melioration in general, and other...
Debbie Sawczak
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May 2, 2003 3:05 am
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Debbie, how nice! Thanks for letting me know it aired. Occasionally they do radio things and then I never hear them (or hear of them) again! Looking forward to...
And .... I should not be allowed to do email at 8 in the morning on five hours' sleep. Sorry for the to-the-list post. I *am* looking for freelancer resumes,...
I got a spam trying to sell this CD which appears to have a great wodge of public domain texts on it. What's not clear is (a) whether you can copy them to...
Orin Hargraves
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May 4, 2003 11:41 am
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Luanne von Schneideme...
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May 12, 2003 5:31 pm
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Dear Colleague, Below please find a job posting for an exciting opportunity at Oxford University Press. I'd be grateful if you could pass this on to your...
... OED has "all the tea in China" from Eric Partridge's slang dictionary (1937). Dictionaries never coin words. Partridge says it's Australian. << Not quite...
... The entry you're probably thinking of, which appeared in the first printing of the Third New International Dictionary, is dord. It came into being when a...
jdespres@...
May 13, 2003 1:43 pm
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The ghost word in MWII was "Dord." It was supposed to be "D or d" but was run together & other dictionaries picked it up. It would be interesting to see how...
Sidney Landau
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May 13, 2003 1:47 pm
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Y'all, Does anyone know when the dictionary became an essential household book like the Bible? Andrea Nagy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
Andrea Nagy
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May 13, 2003 3:08 pm
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Hello. I have another historical question for you: what is the history of the "daffynition?" You know, the fake dictionary definition that makes a joke, like ...
Andrea Nagy
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May 13, 2003 3:11 pm
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Well, not exactly in the realm of ghost words, but in my early days at Funk & Wagnalls, one of whose dictionaries had a forms of address section in the back, I...
Sidney Landau
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May 13, 2003 5:26 pm
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What a great story! Did he insist you call him "Your Eminence" from then on? Erin...
No, but he was very pleased with it, as he (also a poet) saw it as an alternative path he might have taken. Sidney ... From: "Erin McKean"...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
May 13, 2003 7:00 pm
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This is not in the realm of words at all, though it's kind-of-sort-of OT: the art editor for the 11th Collegiate used a number of editors (or editorial body...
jdespres@...
May 13, 2003 7:02 pm
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Editors were used as models in the Thorndike-Barnhart dictionaries, as well as in other textbooks. Graham Mitchell was once posed in a red Ferrari to...
Well... The first edition of the COBUILD dictionary contained the entry "hink", defined, if I remember correctly, as "to think long and hard about something."...
Wendalyn Nichols
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May 14, 2003 3:02 am
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Thought some of you might like the picture. Indulge me! Wendi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
May 14, 2003 3:03 am
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Could someone (Jesse, Fred, Paul, Erin, Luanne, Frank) please help/unhelp me in an argument with a non-linguist friend who claims that the original (believed...
Thomas M. Paikeday
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May 14, 2003 1:54 pm
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Hi Wendi Great news! congratulations on having a daughter, I've got two and it's a lovely place to be. All the best for health and happiness to all of you. I...
Sue Atkins
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May 14, 2003 2:23 pm
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... You can't send attachments over the DSNA list; they'll get stripped out in transit. Wendi will have to send the photo individually, or she could e-mail it...
Sorry, all-- Didn't realize about the attachments. Erin McKean is posting the picture on a Web page (I assume she'll send an e-mail with instrux). all best ...
Wendalyn Nichols
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May 14, 2003 2:49 pm
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This link should show the picture of Wendi's beautiful little girl .... http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSNA/lst (You may have to sign in to Yahoo to see...
Several people have asked me about this .... If you don't already have a Yahoo account, you have to register to see the photo. It takes about a minute -- just...
That ghost word would be Dord. In W2, the abbreviation entry "D or d" suffered a typographical error and was printed as "Dord. A competitor copied it as a...
Edward Gates
edwardgates@...
May 15, 2003 1:09 am
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Here's a site I came across that may be interesting for people writing etys: it aims "to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person,...
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