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...
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Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Jul 4, 2005 4:02 pm
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...
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Victoria Neufeldt
v.neufeldt@...
Jul 4, 2005 5:22 pm
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...
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Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Jul 11, 2005 2:45 am
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. ...
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Erin McKean
editorverbatim
Jul 14, 2005 8:16 pm
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,...
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Thomas Paikeday
thomaspaikeday@...
Jul 15, 2005 1:14 pm
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...
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Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Jul 15, 2005 1:40 pm
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...
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Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Jul 15, 2005 1:52 pm
... 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 ...
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Ken Litkowski
ken@...
Jul 15, 2005 3:28 pm
Thanks to Orin for providing the further very enlightening details. To me, this raises some very fascinating and practical concerns. I was recently talking...
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Erin McKean
editorverbatim
Jul 20, 2005 12:58 pm
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...
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Erin McKean
editorverbatim
Jul 20, 2005 9:41 pm
See below for information about helping fill in the gaps of missing symbols in Unicode ... Erin...
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Erin McKean
editorverbatim
Jul 21, 2005 12:41 pm
By bulk: http://www.mvtimes.com/news/07212005/at_large.html Erin...
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Dave Wilton
dwilton0
Jul 21, 2005 1:57 pm
... 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...
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Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Aug 28, 2005 3:52 pm
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...
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David T. Crowley
tcrowley@...
Aug 29, 2005 5:46 pm
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...
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jdespres@...
Aug 29, 2005 6:07 pm
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...
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Karl M. Kindt III
knightforhir...
Aug 29, 2005 7:17 pm
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...
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Steve Kl.
skleinedler
Sep 6, 2005 4:05 pm
... My first reaction was "What the heck are you talking about?" And then I re-read it, and groaned very loudly. Pretty good, eh? -- Steve...
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Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Sep 8, 2005 3:42 pm
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 ...
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Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 8, 2005 3:59 pm
... 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...
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Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Sep 8, 2005 8:40 pm
if your out there That's from David Barnhart! Clarence must be spinning. . . . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 9, 2005 3:12 pm
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David T. Crowley
tcrowley@...
Sep 9, 2005 5:30 pm
I tried the link below and was re-directed to http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/ Regards, D. Tyrone Crowley ... From: DSNA@yahoogroups.com...
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Thomas Paikeday
thomaspaikeday@...
Sep 9, 2005 7:54 pm
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...
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Thomas Paikeday
thomaspaikeday@...
Sep 9, 2005 9:08 pm
PLEASE NOTE CORRECTION IN SUBJECT LINE. SORRY. ... From: "Thomas Paikeday" <thomaspaikeday@...> To: <DSNA@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 09,...
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Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 23, 2005 2:25 pm
Dictionary Week. That we could have something like this in this country! Luanne...
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Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Sep 23, 2005 2:49 pm
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...
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Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Sep 25, 2005 5:41 am
... 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,...
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Cormier Monique
Monique.Cormier@...
Sep 25, 2005 9:27 pm
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...
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Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Sep 26, 2005 2:27 am
Kudos, Monique! Bob Parks, who will be representing DSNA at the University of Rochester ... It's a start. Luanne...
