lexicographer

• For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. —  INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
• The problem for the lexicographer is that code-switching is open-ended: almost any word or phrase from the one language can be interpolated into discourse from the other. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
• Ehrlich is an experienced editor and lexicographer, and the sort of care and consistency one should expect from such an author is evident throughout. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2
• He must, however, have had some indication that such a word would come into the language because lethargie, which would have come just before lexicographer, is defined as "a drowsie and forgetfull disease," and leuell, meaning —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
• In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. —  INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)

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