This post will address a type of utterance that has only descriptive references -- not a general tag-type, and certainly not a category in the pantheon of...
Which is Corpus Conundrum Corpus Conundrus #1 Fellow word-people. I want to mention a point about the values of, and difficulties of, using corpora, as it...
We should all in the debt of Patrick Hanks for his superb obituary of John Sinclair in the latest edition of IJL. It gives just recognition to a giant in our...
Sidney Landau
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Jul 7, 2007 8:19 pm
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Having worked in both British and American English quite extensively, I am aware of the differences in style, and, in some cases, offer only that the practices...
Laurence Urdang
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Jul 8, 2007 12:37 pm
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Laurence: Laurence: Nice to get your reply. Good points, and I don't differ with you on any of them. I meant to add, regarding Shakespeare, that Evans wrote of...
Scott, A couple of quick, minor points: 1. I see little difficulty with the semicolon used to separate items in a list beginning with a colon; in this case, a...
Laurence Urdang
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Jul 9, 2007 2:19 pm
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Corpus Conundrum #2 (Stress and Intonation) Stress and intonation – these are two aspects of phonetics that are given short shrift in dictionaries (other...
Dear DSNA Colleagues, As you probably know, the transition in the position of Executive Secretary of the DSNA is well underway. Lisa Berglund is taking over...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jul 10, 2007 3:23 am
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Hello to you all, Thanks to the generosity of Dr Reinhard R.K. Hartmann the International Bibliography of Lexicography has made a major step forward. Dr ...
Hello. Can anyone point me in the right direction on the topic of the selection process for dictionary words to be (visually)illustrated? Thank you....
Hi Barbara, In my experience this is usually handled as a "separate exercise," in the hands of a single editor, either in-house or contracted out. I have...
Orin K. Hargraves
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Jul 17, 2007 11:13 am
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Dear Barbara, I seem to recall that there was a peper about illustrations in the Century by someone in Dictionaries (mid 1990's). Regards, David B. ...
Barnhart
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Jul 17, 2007 12:45 pm
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Dear Barbara, If you'll forgive me for citing a book I was involved with, you might be interested in Thora van Male's 'From Incipit to Iconophor' in ...
Apologies for cross-posting Dear all, There's a possibility of an 9/10 month fellowship in my department for a researcher with less than 8 years post-doctoral...
I've posted some pictures of the Chicago meeting, good for about a month. The following link should get you there. You have been issued the following ticket:...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jul 24, 2007 3:38 pm
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Thanks, Luanne. I tried to look at one image, but got this message: Available bandwidth quota for this filesystem has been exceeded. ...
Bethany Dumas
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Jul 24, 2007 4:39 pm
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Thanks, Luanne -- some great snapshots there. I've posted all of two myself, at http://picasaweb.google.com/cmhancher/DSNA2007Chicago?authkey=YjdGcvQUT_w --...
Michael Hancher
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Jul 25, 2007 2:58 am
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The DSNA meeting in June included an open microphone session where the public suggested new words. I recorded this event and gave the audio to Grant Barrett....
At around 14 minutes into the New Word Open Mic podcast Paul Heacock mentions a word that people had been trying to look up in his online dictionary but that...
<<I note that my listener uses another word "distro" that isn't in the Cambridge Learner's dictionary either (nor OED, Merriam-Webster or American Heritage)....
Orin K. Hargraves
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Aug 8, 2007 11:10 am
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into the same hopper " Linux on it. It won't. At least, not without a software emulator. Future generations of the Kestrel might be able to run Minix, however....
In today's Poughkeepsie Journal (8/9/07) an AP article reports on the struggle over an effort to alter the ingredients in chocolate. Manufacturers want to be...
Barnhart
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Aug 9, 2007 11:06 am
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The 5th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX) is to be held in Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India) under the auspices of the...
he first phase of The Preposition Project (TPP) has now been completed. Each of 673 preposition senses for 334 English prepositions (including phrasal...
Ken Litkowski
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Aug 28, 2007 2:31 pm
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Dear all, John Considine has asked me to post this call for papers. Apologies for cross-posting. ...
I'm deeply saddened to say that Audrey Duckert, who worked with Fred Cassidy on the Wisconsin English Language Survey and the beginnings of DARE, and who...
Joan H. Hall
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Sep 6, 2007 10:31 pm
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Hello, DSNA Members, I am forwarding the NHA Update which includes useful fellowship and other information. Lisa Berglund Associate Chair, Department of...
See below. Lisa Berglund Associate Chair, Department of English Buffalo State College Executive Secretary, Dictionary Society of North America Work:...
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