A friend who is a faculty member in the UofIowa art department here is interested in images. He has a 1913 Merriam-Webster's unabridged. He likes it because of...
Wachal, Robert S
robert-wachal@...
May 7, 2008 2:01 pm
978
It's only somewhat tangential to your question, but you and your friend should look at quercuspress.com/websterhome.htm which has a ton of information about...
I think a good place to start would be Sidney Landau's _Dictionaries: The art and craft of lexicography_, 2nd edn. (Cambridge UP, 2001). There's a concise...
Paul Fallon
pfallon@...
May 8, 2008 2:10 pm
980
DSNA folk Lincolns? Franklins? Washingtons? I'm looking for texts in which US bank notes are referrred to by the name of the president portrayed.(Is Hamilton...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
May 9, 2008 4:17 am
981
The appearance of pictures in the Webster dictionaries was an outcome of the War of the Dictionaries between the Merriam Company and the publishers of the...
Edward Gates
edwardgates@...
May 10, 2008 12:37 am
982
It's interesting to watch what happens to words when any of five inconvenient factors intrude on an original (if there is such a thing as an origninal): 1)...
A Long Word -- With Gaps What is a set phrase, but simply a long word with gaps? I came to this conclusion many years ago when teaching English in Korea, who's...
A propos of immediate recognition of the speaker and meaning of "Ask NOT..." Would that be the start of "...for whom the bell tolls", or "...what my country...
Debbie Sawczak
debbie@...
May 17, 2008 7:00 pm
985
Debbie: You are right about the two possible quotes beginning with "Ask not..." My fonts didn't translate well into the Yahoo reply box. I capitalized...
This may not be earth-shattering, but it may be earth shattering. Take the humble hyphen. It's interesting that in the modern world there are such marked...
I've noted this before a number of times. "If you take hyphens seriously you will surely go mad." (1937) The quote comes from _The Thorndike-Barnhart...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
May 22, 2008 8:50 am
988
David: Thanks for the reply. I knew I would be preaching to the choir, though I felt the need to vent on it. And your response made me think of my lapse in...
Dear DSNAers: I've been looking for a 19th-century quote by a philologist on etymology being considered a "hobby" only - in contrast to scientific inquiry. I...
Stefan Dollinger
dstefan@...
May 23, 2008 2:58 pm
990
I think it's Wilhelm v. Humboldt, not Alexander, that you want. j p maher Ein besonderes Steckenpferd des Mannes stellt die Etymologie dar, und so unterhält...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
May 23, 2008 3:22 pm
991
Debbie Excellent point. I suspect the initial dsna writer - bolstar1 - meant native speaker of American English. Phil To: DSNA@...:...
philip matthews
philmatthews19@...
May 24, 2008 5:53 pm
992
Debbie Excellent point. I suspect the initial dsna writer - bolstar1 - meant native speaker of American English. Phil To: DSNA@...:...
philip matthews
philmatthews19@...
May 24, 2008 5:54 pm
993
I’ve had a week from hell, so this is just a quick note to say that I got the Journal in the mail on Saturday, got a terrible cold on Sunday, and today, in...
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I saw this job on Craigslist DC and forward it here in case you missed it. I am not affiliated with the job poster in any way and know nothing about the job....
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J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Jun 26, 2008 3:43 am
997
By definition, metaphors (nonliteral words) and idioms (nonliteral phrases) allude to "other things" -- things that have striking, distinctive, or memorable...
Folks: I just wanted to give you a taste of what I do for fun. It probably is not new to you, but you have liberty to use the forms below as examples in your...
Can anyone give me a website where I can have access to the full text of Webster's Introduction to his 1828 An American Dictionary of the English Language? ...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Jul 5, 2008 12:00 am
1000
Sidney, According to the Wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language ... The 1828...
Sidney, After your post and my not too helpful reply, I dove into your query, and, even though I could not find the complete e-text of the intro (I have since ...
Vero, Thanks. There is a CD purportedly containing the entire 1828 dictionary produced by a Christian organization. After I had ordered and paid for it I...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Jul 5, 2008 4:07 pm
1003
Dear Members It is now July and the closing date for submission of abstracts for the Australex 2008 conference is August 30. We welcome presentations on all ...
Dianne Bardsley
Dianne.Bardsley@...
Jul 8, 2008 10:23 pm
1004
re Jackson & Hellyer. 1914 A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang: Is there any evidence that Jackson may have cribbed earlier sources? j p maher [Non-text portions of...
jpmaher
jpmaher@...
Jul 9, 2008 2:43 pm
1005
Via the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt website https://www.hmhpub.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=433&CurrentPage=1 or via Monster.com ...
The Scottish Language Dictionaries program has had its funding withdrawn by the Scottish Arts Council. SLD, a charity, is responsible for the Dictionary of the...
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