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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
edwardgates@...
Jul 23, 2004 3:13 pm
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I forwarded the query to my colleague here, Chad Thompson, a linguistic anthropologist, whose work was originally on algonkian languages in alaska. he sent the...
Beth Simon
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Jul 24, 2004 12:36 am
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Anyone know what the original source of this dictionary was? The definition sounds ancient! Erin http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=servis/z_en_2004_0108...
Dictionary.com's citations are rather confusing. Their first display shows an entry from the 4th edition of American Heritage. But below that they display a...
from Chad Thompson Umiaq is an Inupiaq/Inuit word and refers to a large skin boat. I don't have an Inuit Dictionary at hand. The Inupiaq/Inuit people are in ...
Beth Simon
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Jul 27, 2004 9:19 pm
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This definition ascribed to "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary" of 1996 and 1998 seems not to go back to Webster's AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH...
edwardgates@...
Jul 29, 2004 5:09 pm
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The latest issue of the DSNA newsletter is posted on the website. For US members, the paper copy is now at bulk mail here in Madison, where they are in the...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jul 29, 2004 6:19 pm
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I have the Merriam Webster's International Dictionary of the English Lanuguage, copyright 1900 with "One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally...
Julie Plier
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Jul 29, 2004 7:24 pm
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The "Webster-Mahn" of 1864 (the 1st unabridged) -- my copy is of 1867, but is likely unchanged -- has this as the main definition for Gypsy: "One of a vagabond...
Sidney Landau
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Jul 30, 2004 6:39 pm
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What does it matter where it came from? Just shows it's better not to copy, Folks (or cast an eye on the entries for Gypsy/gypsy in the World Book...
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