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Elmer Suderman Gustavus Adolphus College Eccentricity in English Lexicography From the beginning of English lexicography the craft has been serious, often pedantic.
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This is the first of what I hope will become a regular feature: the Errata "Legends of Lexicography" interview series.
On OUPblog: Reading the OED, An Interview with Ammon Shea 2008
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This is the first of what I hope will become a regular feature: the Errata "Legends of Lexicography" interview series.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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This is the first of what I hope will become a regular feature: the Errata "Legends of Lexicography" interview series.
On OUPblog: Reading the OED, An Interview with Ammon Shea 2008
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This is the first of what I hope will become a regular feature: the Errata "Legends of Lexicography" interview series.
On OUPblog: Reading the OED, An Interview with Ammon Shea 2008
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It's therefore useful to have terms which identify cases where the two words do look identical, as in these examples from Hartmann and James's Dictionary of Lexicography: English gift 'present' and German gift 'poison'.
On false friends DC 2008
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The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:
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As James Murray, redoubtable editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, described in his classic The Evolution of English Lexicography, the first dictionaries in the British Isles
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Here, I'll show it to you: Lexicography: the practice of compiling dictionaries.
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Lexicography is really more about material science.
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