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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Sep 26, 2005 2:27 am
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Oh, alas. My poor wife, who has suffered through my dictionary peregrinations for lo these many years, now learns that she was born on Dictionary Day. ... -- ...
Ken Litkowski
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Sep 26, 2005 2:40 am
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Certainly in my life and, I suspect, in the lives of many others here, dictionary day is every day. The pinnacle day for our dictionary reverence is Dec....
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Sep 26, 2005 1:54 pm
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Let me make it clear that I have no criticism of Larousse dictionaries; but the manner of presentation of the announcement of Dictionary Day smacked of...
Laurence Urdang
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Sep 27, 2005 8:10 pm
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Of Mike Agnes of Webster's New World. Enjoy! :-) --Erin ... <http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinion/viewarticle.aspx?id=285805> [Non-text portions of this...
... It's a great picture of Mike (whom we don't see enough of) but why is it that further down in the article the photo is not of his dictionary but of M-W ...
Orin Hargraves
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Sep 28, 2005 11:37 am
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I can only retrieve the opening sentence and get no pictures. What am I doing wrong? Sidney Landau ... From: "Orin Hargraves" <orinkh@...> To: "DSNA"...
Sidney Landau
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Sep 28, 2005 3:53 pm
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Sidney Did you click on the link? Either click on this: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=living&story_id=092705__newwords or copy that line and...
Paul Heacock
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Sep 28, 2005 7:07 pm
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Sorry about that. Thought I was replying to Sidney, but seem to have mailed the whole list. Paul Heacock ELT Electronic Publishing & Publishing Systems Manager...
Paul Heacock
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Sep 28, 2005 7:10 pm
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It's strange to see that they put Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, not Webster New World College Dictionary on the "Words on the street" picture. ...
A note -- and warning! -- to all members of this list: you can't reply to the poster individually, even if you replace the DSNA list address in the "To" field...
Victoria Neufeldt
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Sep 28, 2005 11:02 pm
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I'm not sure why the technique below wouldn't work, but you can always try to "FORWARD" the message to the original sender, and your email program should treat...
Erin It would be best if it were possible to change the list settings to not automatically reply to either the sender or the list. That way, when you hit Reply...
Paul Heacock
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Sep 29, 2005 4:37 pm
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Okay, I checked, and sadly, the sensible thing Paul suggests below is not an option. I also checked the settings for Eudora, the email program I use, and see...
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