Well, we're hiring again. If you or any of your students might be interested in working for the OED in New York, application info can be found here: ...
Greetings: I inquired with World Almanac/F&W Encyclopedia about the Funk and ... Has anyone inquired with HarperCollins? Bob Parks [Non-text portions of this...
Anyone going to Euralex who would be willing to be DSNA's representative, take a few DSNA journals and newsletters for display there and see that they get put...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jun 17, 2004 3:19 pm
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Note that he seems to have based it on WNW ... Cut and pasted from the Ventura Cty Star, as they have a particularly intrusive registration process. Erin After...
... Hi Barbara, Interesting you should ask: a friend of mine is the reference librarian at World Book and he gave me, a few years ago, the name of the guy he...
Orin Hargraves
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Jun 23, 2004 4:30 pm
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I've been asked to write a short article on "How To Become a Lexicographer," and since there isn't really a set path (especially in the US), I'd love to hear...
Dear Erin, Oh, my! I'll put together something coherent for you when my children let me back on the infernal computer machine. Where is the article going to ...
Barnhart
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Jun 30, 2004 11:05 pm
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David, Thanks! My deadline is July 10 -- and it's only 1000 words, so please don't go to TOO much trouble (although I'd love to see anything you wanted to...
For starters, I have been a linguist specializing in English grammar and usage for more than a quarter of a century. I started attending DSNA conferences and...
Robert Wachal
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Jul 2, 2004 2:46 pm
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Rober Wachal wrote: For starters, I have been a linguist specializing in English grammar and usage for more than a quarter of a century. I started attending...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jul 2, 2004 11:37 pm
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Robert Wachal wrote: For starters, I have been a linguist specializing in English grammar and usage for more than a quarter of a century. I started attending...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jul 2, 2004 11:41 pm
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Erin, As you say, there's no set path to becoming a lexicographer, although those giving courses in lexicography might claim if you pass their courses you ...
Erin, I suspect the commonality in the stories you collect will be a love of the challenge language presents, and a youthful hubris in believe we might master...
Members of these lists might want to know that Robert Burchfield, former Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, died this morning after a long illness....
Erin, I should have proofed that last message. Here is an instant revision. I suspect the commonality in the stories you collect will be a love of the...
Erin, I haven't been doing all that well, so just realized that your deadline is the 10th. I think my entry into lexicography was as much due to blind luck and...
The New York Times stated this yesterday: "They were developed by the indigenous peoples of Arctic regions; the word kayak translates as "man's boat." The...
Dear Barbara, The only only bilingual dictionary I've found in my library so far (I just got back from a mini-vacation a few minutes ago) that deals with this...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jul 20, 2004 2:40 am
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Dear Barbara, Again, see the Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology. It's entry list is somewhat abbreviated. But that abridgement should give you a start. ...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jul 20, 2004 10:29 am
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Dear Barbara, Your requirement for consistency will, of course, limit the dictionaries available. However, space requirements not withstanding, the World Book...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jul 20, 2004 12:54 pm
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This is in the citations for kayak in the OED, as coming from 1769, Falconer Dict. Marine (1789 ed.) "The canoe is called kaiak, or man's boat, to distinguish...
But these may just be cultural characterizations rather than translations, don't you think? Regards, David barnhart@......
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jul 20, 2004 1:56 pm
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In a laudatory review of Sidney Landau's _Dictionaries: The Art & Craft of Lexicography_ (2nd ed.) in the latest number of the society's journal, I reported in...
Ed Finegan
finegan@...
Jul 21, 2004 7:11 pm
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If you haven't heard about this project, well ... you have now. From the Sun-Times on Sunday. With limericks he's smitten and Oxford's being rewritten July 11,...
Why didn't Finegan wake? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Robert Wachal
robert-wachal@...
Jul 23, 2004 2:41 pm
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But the reporter has the number of feet in the lines wrong -- it's 3-3-4-3. --EG ________________________________________________________________ The best...
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