In case you read Safire's column of 3 April in the Sunday Times Magazine about Putin's name in France, you should know about the following quotation from an...
Laurence Urdang
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Apr 3, 2005 2:11 pm
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So the French transform Putin from a prostitute to French fries with cheese curds and gravy? Poutine is a French Canadian dish that has migrated to Northern...
... ************ I suppose we deal here simply with homonymy, in the same way that no Berliner took President Kennedy's dramatic statement ("Ich bin ein...
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
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Apr 3, 2005 5:42 pm
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In the event that somebody misses it, please note that my "P.P.S." to Safire was sent on March 1st, before the March 2nd WSJ article appeared. Laurence Urdang ...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 4, 2005 1:08 pm
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Romanization of Russian proper names gets a little tricky if they immigrate to Canada. Depending on their port of entry, their family's last name will ...
Hi again Jeff, I realize this is old but I just noticed this message in my DSNA folder. A good way to break into lexicography is via teaching. I taught English...
Daniel Barron
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Apr 12, 2005 2:13 pm
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Sorry for the group reply. That was a mistake. - Daniel Daniel Barron <danieljbarron@...> wrote: Hi again Jeff, I realize this is old but I just noticed...
Daniel Barron
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Apr 12, 2005 2:16 pm
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Hello, All-- Some of you may know that one of the hats I'm now wearing is the editorship of Copy Editor newsletter. One of the columnists wants to write a...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Apr 14, 2005 3:39 pm
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The only thing that springs to mind is the quote from a Dorothy Parker theater review (but I don't which play) in which she wrote that one of the actors (but I...
Laurence Urdang
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Apr 14, 2005 4:13 pm
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Hi Wendi (and all), I don't have anything attributable to say about this, but it DOES ring a loud bell for me and I'm sure the reason is that someone notable...
Orin Hargraves
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Apr 14, 2005 5:01 pm
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Half tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to propose that this pattern - "from x to y" - is an invitation to the creative mind to construct a range for comparison, rather...
Sorry for the misspelling. Here is a copy edited version. Half tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to propose that this pattern - "from x to y" - is an invitation to the...
Why, so far as I can tell, does no dictionary include "iPod"? Is it too new? Is it omitted because it's a trade name? That's no reason to omit it. I'm not...
Sidney Landau
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Apr 21, 2005 1:16 pm
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The primary issue would be how to determine whether the use of "iPod" has become generic, and how to handle the objections of Apple if its use were not limited...
I think there are two issues here: one is whether or not to enter iPod in as an encyclopedic entry, like "George Washington" or "Mount Cook" -- a specific...
Well, I turned to a dictionary to look for "iPod" and I cannot see why anyone would not. After all, people (including me) do not know or are not sure whether...
Sidney Landau
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Apr 21, 2005 6:25 pm
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Sidney, You are quite wrong about the issue of trade marks and dictionaries: companies that own Xerox, Kleenex, Coke, Cellophane, Celluloid, Nylon, Orlon,...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 21, 2005 7:04 pm
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I fail to see in what way I'm wrong, or how my comments are inconsistent with the identification of trademarks, if that's what dictionary publishers think they...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Apr 21, 2005 9:18 pm
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Sidney, As I replied to you directly at greater length, you are wrong in the sense that publishers do not wish to become embroiled in lawsuits about trademarks...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 22, 2005 3:18 pm
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... Is it possible we will see iPod-inspired words show up in our dictionaries before the term iPod itself? I'm thinking of such terms as "podcasting"...
To chime in late (I was traveling), During my tenure at Random House, I received several letters from attorneys for trademark holders insisting that we do X or...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Apr 25, 2005 6:04 pm
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Wendy, You raise too many points for me to comment on save to say that, as you point out, times change, and so does the legal mind. When I ran things at Random...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 25, 2005 8:15 pm
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I know that one citation doesn't prove anything, but for the record, President Bush was quoted in the NY Times of April 22, 2005, p. A18, as follows: "Offering...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Apr 25, 2005 8:42 pm
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Dear all, Just a reminder: to get your super-cheap room rate of $54 for the Boston DSNA conference you have to book by tomorrow, May 13. You can download the...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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May 12, 2005 3:10 pm
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From an interview here: http://www.enginecomics.co.uk/interviews/jan05/alanmoore.htm DR: Do you ever pick up the dictionary and start leafing through it? AM:...
"Elsewhere in the interview he praises the Random House Dictionary as the one book he'd save in a fire." Of course! I assume he means the Unabridged, probably...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
May 17, 2005 3:27 pm
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Dear all, You might be interested in the online Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project <http://www.indo-european.nl/>. The project is supervised by...
INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION 51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 31 - APRIL 2, 2006 YORK UNIVERSITY The Metropolitan Hotel, 108 Chestnut Street, Toronto,...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
May 28, 2005 2:25 am
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Dear Colleagues, I hope that you will excuse this semi-commercial message ... Oxford University Press, in order to encourage the use of the Oxford American...
For what it's worth, very useful and beautifully presented electronic versions of the NOAD2 as well as the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus (1st ed.) are...
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