Article of interest in the Saturday NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/opinion/02lynch.html?ex=1121054400&en=2bccfded95fe5a7b&ei=5070&emc=eta1...
Orin Hargraves
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Jul 3, 2005 8:19 pm
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I read Lynch's article in the NY Times, which was fine so far as Johnson was concerned, but to say about Webster's 1828 dictionary that "his terse work is...
Sidney Landau
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Jul 4, 2005 4:02 pm
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I agree! It was a very surprising thing to read; hard to believe, actually, that he would even think that, let alone write it in a NYTimes article. I know...
Victoria Neufeldt
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Jul 4, 2005 5:22 pm
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Dear all, The meeting photo taken at Boston can be accessed at http://www.bu.edu/photo/2001/POST225DCGP There is also a link from the DSNA website to this. ...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Jul 11, 2005 2:45 am
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Thought folks might be interested in this article from the NYTimes. Erin July 13, 2005 Dictionaries Are Set Aside in Patent Suits By BLOOMBERG NEWS Inventors,...
Circuit Judge William C. Bryson, in an opinion for 9 of the 12 judges on the court, wrote that "The main problem with elevating the dictionary to such...
Thomas Paikeday
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Jul 15, 2005 1:14 pm
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Erin, Thanks for the link to the Times piece. It is badly written and quite meaningless without a few examples: the citing of baffle is useless, for it is...
Laurence Urdang
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Jul 15, 2005 1:40 pm
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... meaningless without a few examples: the citing of baffle is useless, for it is incomplete, and no detailed explanation is given of the issue. Too bad, for ...
Orin Hargraves
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Jul 15, 2005 1:52 pm
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Thanks to Orin for providing the further very enlightening details. To me, this raises some very fascinating and practical concerns. I was recently talking...
Ken Litkowski
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Jul 15, 2005 3:28 pm
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Looks like the most active spelling-reform folks now have their own newsletter, which you can subscribe to, if you are at all interested, at...
... BTW he gets the origin of "duff-man" wrong. His kids could probably have told him that it's not from "duffer," at least not directly, but rather from "The...
DSNA members might be interested in a Talk of the Town piece in the New Yorker of August 29, 2005, page 32, dealing with a fake entry in a dictionary. Several...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Aug 28, 2005 3:52 pm
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Colleagues-- I am trying to determine the first occurrence of the words racism and racist in English-language dictionaries. Webster's 10th dates the first...
David T. Crowley
tcrowley@...
Aug 29, 2005 5:46 pm
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The first entry for "racism" that I was able to find in a Merriam-Webster dictionary appeared in a 1949 printing of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (sixth...
jdespres@...
Aug 29, 2005 6:07 pm
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Dear David, I collect dictionaries of all kinds going back to an 1884 Webster dictionary. I will check through my older Funk and Wagnels and the Century copies...
Michael, if your out there, please e-mail me your current e-mail address. If anyone else can help me, I'd be enormously grateful. Regards, David ...
Barnhart
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Sep 8, 2005 3:42 pm
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... To jump in here, if anyone has a current e-mail or way of contacting Arthur Bronstein, could you let me know? The e-mail I have with socrates.berkeley is...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 8, 2005 3:59 pm
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if your out there That's from David Barnhart! Clarence must be spinning. . . . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Laurence Urdang
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Sep 8, 2005 8:40 pm
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Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 9, 2005 3:12 pm
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I tried the link below and was re-directed to http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/ Regards, D. Tyrone Crowley ... From: DSNA@yahoogroups.com...
David T. Crowley
tcrowley@...
Sep 9, 2005 5:30 pm
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Larry Urdang, I beg to differ! With all due respect to Rome (by the way, I am a church-going Roman Catholic of the Syro-Malabar rite) I believe Clarence is...
Thomas Paikeday
thomaspaikeday@...
Sep 9, 2005 7:54 pm
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PLEASE NOTE CORRECTION IN SUBJECT LINE. SORRY. ... From: "Thomas Paikeday" <thomaspaikeday@...> To: <DSNA@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 09,...
Thomas Paikeday
thomaspaikeday@...
Sep 9, 2005 9:08 pm
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Dictionary Week. That we could have something like this in this country! Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 23, 2005 2:25 pm
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Depends on what you mean by "we." This is obviously a commercial venture supported by a publisher. You might be able to persuade Oxford or somebody else to do...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Sep 23, 2005 2:49 pm
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... Actually, it doesn't look at all like that to me. Sure, they're focusing one day out of Dictionary Week on the storied contributions of Larousse this time,...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Sep 25, 2005 5:41 am
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As instigator and organiser of the 2nd Quebec Dictionary Day and of the Dictionary Week, to be held in Quebec from October 6 to 12, I have read your messages...
Cormier Monique
Monique.Cormier@...
Sep 25, 2005 9:27 pm
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Kudos, Monique! Bob Parks, who will be representing DSNA at the University of Rochester ... It's a start. Luanne...
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