Folks, An email query has come in, asking if there is a version of the "1867 Webster" available electronically. Any help or leads appreciated ... Thanks! Erin...
I am a DSNA member and locally I serve on the board of the Foundation of the city library. A question came up recently. Suppose someone donated a life...
Robert Wachal
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Jan 25, 2005 11:59 pm
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Dear Mr. Wachal, Yes, keeping track of people can be a problem. But it must be borne in mind that most people listed in biographical dictionaries are fairly...
Laurence Urdang
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Jan 26, 2005 2:58 pm
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Good to hear from you, sir. I suppose that obscure people could be periodically "googled." Thanks. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Robert Wachal
robert-wachal@...
Jan 26, 2005 3:06 pm
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... If ... A similar discussion came up a couple of years ago on this list and there was mention of the "Dead People Server," a useful website that I find is...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Jan 26, 2005 3:58 pm
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I am unfamiliar with the website mentioned by Mr. Hargraves, but I would venture to say that the biographical dictionary would cast its net far wider than the...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Jan 26, 2005 4:13 pm
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The subject, slipping into eternity, reminds me that while on the Lexington Ave. downtown express one day 25 years ago, I heard someone say sadly of a fellow...
Everett, Timothy
teverett@...
Jan 26, 2005 4:23 pm
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... There is also "Caskets On Parade" at http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/index.htm. This one is divided into two sections, those who are dead and those...
Robert, You might consider registering for the news notifacation services of The New York Times. I think Google and Yahoo may also have a variant that allows...
Just a reminder to those of you who are interested in presenting at our Boston meeting in June. Abstracts are due to David Jost (davidarthurjost@...)...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jan 27, 2005 6:25 pm
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hi luanne, I'm still trying but not betting to madison; feb I hope are any past abstracts available? on disc? online? I'd like to submt, but i'm not sure what...
Beth Simon
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Jan 27, 2005 10:53 pm
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... Robert MacNeill will be here giving a talk Feb 5. Did you see Do You Speak American? These are just your normal run of the mill abstracts, like for any...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Jan 28, 2005 3:13 am
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Sorry about sending the message to Beth to the list. :-( Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Jan 28, 2005 3:22 am
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If your correspondent was referring to the 1864 revision of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (of which there very well might have...
jdespres@...
Feb 1, 2005 1:58 pm
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Erin, I've only seen the 1828 and 1913 editions available electronically. The 1828 edition is searchable online here: http://www.christiansoup.com/ and is also...
When did Random House announce that it would no longer be in the business of producing new dictionaries or revising its existing ones? Was it 2003 or last...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Feb 7, 2005 3:17 pm
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October of 2001. Time flies, eh? The wording wasn't that explicit; what they said was that they would not be undertaking any "new editorial initiatives" at...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Feb 7, 2005 4:43 pm
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Here is the text of the press release, verbatim. It is more "final" in tone than I remembered. --WRN The Random House Reference Group has long been a leading...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Feb 7, 2005 6:14 pm
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... Would it be worth anything to have all lexicographers who attend the Boston meeting in June (and are willing) sign a petition to RH asking that they make...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Feb 7, 2005 6:21 pm
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... I believe we discussed this two years ago at a meeting of the DSNA Executive Board and agreed that it would be inappropriate for the DSNA to start making...
Yes, I brought it up then, and that was the consensus, although I'm not entirely sure I agree. I still wish there were some way to get the word out; I did try...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Feb 7, 2005 6:55 pm
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Yes, it would be helpful. However, my impression of most commercial companies is that they don't like people meddling in their affairs. We would be about as...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Feb 7, 2005 7:43 pm
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David, that is exactly the scene I refer to whenever I want to describe what's happened to the files! WN Do you remember the last scene in the first Indiana...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Feb 7, 2005 8:39 pm
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I am grateful to Philip Trauring for alerting us about getting a CD of the 1828 Webster's, which I have now done, but I must tell you that it is less than...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Feb 7, 2005 10:13 pm
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Thanks to everyone especially to Wendi Nichols for the information about RH. It's hard to believe this happened so long ago. CUP recently published a book...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Feb 7, 2005 10:35 pm
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Dear Wendalyn, The last scene shows a wide shot of a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with crates. Two workers are wheeling a crate containing the Arch of the...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Feb 7, 2005 11:19 pm
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From Barnhart, in part: "Two workers are wheeling a crate containing the Arch of the Covenant . . ." Is that something like the Holy Pail? [Non-text portions...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Feb 8, 2005 2:17 pm
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... I my humble opinion, (off-topic) I believe the government thinks everything they do is "holy"--actually it's more "full of holes." [Non-text portions of...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Feb 8, 2005 2:26 pm
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Anyone on this list who freelances lexicographically, is a native speaker of American English, lives in the US, and has some ESL experience (classroom ...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Feb 8, 2005 6:03 pm
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Regretfully, I can not join you at Boston. I am presently updating the mailing list for the New Zealand Dictionary Centre newsletter. Please send me your snail...
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