For those interested in the origin of the term "jazz," I'll present draft #3 on this topic in the October/November issue of Comments on Etymology. The input...
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
gcohen@...
Oct 1, 2005 4:45 pm
715
Has anyone got a new email address for Barbara Kipfer that is not at lexico.com? I would appreciate it if you do. Alternatively, Barbara, if you're reading...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Oct 31, 2005 12:34 pm
716
Here I am: bkipfer@..., barbarak@...! ... if you're...
Just a reminder that the deadline for the 2006 Laurence Urdang-DSNA Award is December 1, 2005. Please check details on the DSNA website, URL below. Luanne ...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
Nov 18, 2005 10:27 pm
718
Dear LvS, As you might know, one of the reasons for the Award is to entice linguists and lexicographers to join the DSNA (since only members may apply for the...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Nov 19, 2005 3:30 pm
719
Geoff Nunberg has a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on the use of dictionaries by judges and justices on "Fresh Air" today: ...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Nov 29, 2005 9:26 pm
720
FYI, a longer version of this broadcast is now available at http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/johnson.html. Cheers Paul Paul Heacock ELT Electronic...
Paul Heacock
pheacock@...
Nov 30, 2005 2:48 pm
721
Does anyone know the pronunciation of Beringia? Does it have a hard or soft g? And where would its primary stress be? It does not appear in any reference I...
Paul Heacock
pheacock@...
Dec 9, 2005 3:47 pm
722
... Hi Paul, ODE (Have Cambridge buy you a copy!) has it as be-RINJ-ia. Orin...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Dec 9, 2005 4:04 pm
723
Dear Polyglots / Dictionary Society of North America The name is of course "New Latin", like "Shavian" for G B Shaw, Glaswegian, Norwegian etc., so North...
jpmaher
jpmaher@...
Dec 10, 2005 12:43 am
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Hello. Does anyone have an email address for John Ayto? Thank you....
Hello, all. I am passing along this note from an acquaintance of mine at Ulysses Press: "I am an editor with Ulysses Press in Berkeley, CA. We are searching ...
Dear B Kipfer You could not do better than engage Dr Reinhold Aman. He's the best. Peter Maher ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
jpmaher
jpmaher@...
Dec 14, 2005 8:46 pm
727
John Morse has asked me to remind DSNA-L subscribers who plan to attend the MLA Convention next week that the Discussion Group on Lexicography session,...
jdespres@...
Dec 19, 2005 4:34 pm
728
The New York Times today has an interesting front-page story dealing with Mayor Bloomburg's changing dialect, from Boston to New York, and among others, our...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Jan 16, 2006 2:10 pm
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Thanks, Sidney. I have to protest, though, that I never mentioned "Harvard Yard," and I was appalled to see that comment interpolated by the reporter into my...
Joan Houston Hall
jdhall@...
Jan 17, 2006 9:18 pm
730
Compare JFK's "ich bin Berliner" speech. No error. This NY Times story could have been spiked by anyone competent in German syntax. Endlessly repeated and ...
jpmaher
jpmaher@...
Jan 18, 2006 12:50 pm
731
Yesterday I, in the role of President of DSNA, was interviewed by Michael Rozen (BBC-Bristol). The edited version may be heard tomorrow at ...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jan 26, 2006 8:58 pm
732
Some of you no doubt remember it from when it first appeared, but I am too young to have seen it before ("My hair is a fright," Tom said teasingly). The New...
I've always been partial to the closing line in a review by Tom Pyles of a usage book that can remain nameless: "This book fills a much needed void." --John...
johnalgeo@...
Feb 2, 2006 2:54 pm
734
Call for Papers MLA 2006 Convention, Philadelphia Lexicography Discussion Group Text and Hypertext: Dictionaries and their Readers/Users Increasingly,...
Forwarded from Adam ... Just out of curiosity -- if any Lexicom programs were offered as part of DSNA 2007 in Chicago, would people be interested in attending?...
For those of use who define trademarks or list them in our books, it is probably worthwhile to add our voices to those protesting this change! Erin ... ...
It6 is useful to have the news of the trademark regulations change, but I am niot sure how that affects lexicographers, for, as (all of) you know, dictionaries...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Feb 16, 2006 8:18 pm
738
As I understand it, the ruling could conceivably result in the requirement that registry marks and trademark symbols be printed, and that silly capitalizations...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
Feb 16, 2006 9:39 pm
739
I have an almost-complete set of American Speech issues from the 1960s into the 1990s that I do not have room to store. I'm happy to give them away to a good...
Paul Heacock
pheacock@...
Feb 27, 2006 2:36 pm
740
Maybe other folks know about this one already but I just stumbled across it: easy one-step search with lots of options on a raft of obscure sources that you ...
Orin K. Hargraves
orinkh@...
Mar 20, 2006 3:53 pm
741
Orin & all According to the database copyright info, This dictionary was derived from the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Version published 1913 by the...
Paul Heacock
pheacock@...
Mar 21, 2006 8:08 pm
742
... From: DSNA@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Paul Heacock Sent: Tue 3/21/2006 3:04 PM To: DSNA@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSNA] great online dictionary...
Orin K. Hargraves
orinkh@...
Mar 21, 2006 9:29 pm
743
Dear Colleagues, I received the following from Shamsuddin Ahmed. Please contact him directly if you'd be willing to help. Thanks. Luanne...
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