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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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Dear Colleagues, I received the following from Shamsuddin Ahmed. Please contact him directly if you'd be willing to help. Thanks. Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
Lvonschn@...
May 3, 2006 2:36 pm
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Just as an FYI for all of us, Michael Rundell (of the lexicography master class at the University of Brighton) does a lot of consulting about regional...
Wendalyn Nichols
wendalyn@...
May 4, 2006 4:11 am
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Dear Colleagues, I have been a member of the DSNA for some years now, but only just joined this e-mail group. I’m still reading up on past messages (700 of...
Colleagues, Do you know anyone who might be interested in doing the HDAS summer internship? Here's the short announcement: The U.S. Lexical Reference...
In response to questions: --The internship is unpaid. --Housing is not provided. --The internship is in New York City. --15 to 20 hours a week with a flexible...
Dewi Evans of University College Dublin has arranged a workshop/training course on the TshwaneLex dictionary writing system which may be of interest to those...
I thought some of you might be interested in hearing a commercial demo containing "some of the hip, new words that are in the Random House dictionary, circa...
Daniel Barron
danieljbarron@...
May 16, 2006 3:04 pm
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Bob That's weird! I couldn't see how you knew it was from the RHD or the date, since the details of the recording didn't show up on my screen. Larry ... From:...
urdang
urdang@...
May 16, 2006 4:00 pm
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... The page immediately above this, http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/mp3.html , titles this link "Funky Dictionary" and says "Another from my collection of...
Dear DSNA members, Abstracts for DSNA 2007 are due January 2, 2007. We invite interested participants to submit one-page abstracts for 20 minute papers on any...
"How might I locate the archives of Funk and Wagnall? Am I correct that the company no longer exists? (But then, who publishes their dictionary, and can I...
Hi Barbara, There are no archives for Funk & Wagnalls [sic], not Wagnall. The cofounder of the company was Adam Wagnalls with Isaac Funk. The company was...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
May 21, 2006 6:33 pm
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Supplementary to Sidney Landau's information:. The Canadian firm Fitzhenry & Whiteside licensed from Harper & Row the right to produce Funk & Wagnalls Canadian...
Fraser Sutherland
rodfrasers@...
May 22, 2006 12:42 pm
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Further to the F&W background. In the mid 1950s, I worked on the two-volume Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary, International Edition, completed (I thought,...
urdang
urdang@...
May 22, 2006 4:02 pm
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Thank you Messrs Landau, Sutherland, and Urdang for your responses. Very interesting! It seems that HarperCollins is the likely storage point for the Funk &...
I don't know anything about the RD Great Illustrated Dictionary. The Digest has used various dictionaries in its offerings, and I suspect this may not be the...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
May 23, 2006 3:47 pm
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The Reader's Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary was a two-volume work published in London in 1984. Its consultant editor was Robert Ilson; usage editor, David...
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