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• “It offers a reasonably engaging protagonist, who, as the novel's first-person narrator, possesses a generally lively writing style that at times can even be rather penetrating, and it is structured in a mildly unorthodox way -- through alphabetically arranged entries that make the story of Andrew a kind of lexicographical guide to his life -- that piques the reader's interest but surely doesn't really pose a threat to narrative coherence for most readers.”

  Experimental Fiction

• “It would be a tragic case of lexicographical guilt-by-association.”

  The Huffington Post: Laurence Hughes: Sanitizing Twain -- to the Nth Degree

• “Never mind those unfilled library shelves: At least 200 additions to the language, ranging from "old dear" to "devil-may-care," would have gone unminted, making posterity's loss as much lexicographical as literary.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Snapshots of 'Boz'

• “It is hoped that this masterpiece will point the way ot wider use of modern lexicographical principles in the compilation of dictionaries for earlier periods of the Arabic language.”

  Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic « Books « Literacy News

• “For extra credit: How would the late, great lexicographical giant William Safire rule in this case?”

  The Washington Post: AP says write 'website,' not 'Web site'

• “We have a lexicographical problem: "The Taliban" is an umbrella term for, as Kilcullen notes, a variety of groups.”

  Don’t Start The Talking I Could Talk All Night | ATTACKERMAN

• “You are in a lexicographical minefield and are damned every way.”

  Busted Up For Dogmeat. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “So what word did these lexicographical social workers give us to look after and litter the pages of G2 with until we turned welmish 14?”

  The Guardian: Move to rescue obscure words

• “Over time, however, the attitude toward their use of language has shifted; the male text of the Yishuv period, which stood out for its lexicographical torrent of description and variety, is now perceived as out-dated and cumbersome; on the other hand, the text of the women writers not only flows better but its style comes across as modern and relevant.”

  Prose Writing in the Yishuv: 1882-1948.

• “Schott describes his blog as "a repository of unconsidered lexicographical trifles -- some serious, others frivolous, some neologized, others newly newsworthy.”

  Jerry Weissman: Language Lovers Unite

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