Originally published on harm•less drudg•ery Though the average lexicographer is as odd as a horse in trousers, we are, at least, a staid and quiet horse in trousers most of the time. There’s very little that will rile us up, and that’s a feature, not a bug. But there is one event that makes most…
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From ‘hammajang’ to ‘munted’, lexicographers have issued a worldwide call for regionally distinctive words to define
From reads about lexicographers and bookshop employees to librarians, these books about books are for serious bibliophiles only.
You might be forgiven for thinking that the merry band of lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries were trolling us all when they announced their word of the
April 17, 2024 | use of too many words when fewer would be clearer In The King’s English (1906), lexicographers H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler advised, 'Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.'
Being the home country of the internationally-known academics, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Germany definitely offers a handful of wonderful things to do and places to visit with kids. With a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges, and beaches dotted with castles and palaces, anyone who visits is up for a
Peter Gilliver has been an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary since 1987, and is now one of the Dictionary’s most experienced lexicographers; he has also contributed to several other dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. In addition to his lexicographical work, he has been writing and speaking about the history of the OED for over fifteen years. In this two part Q&A, we learn more about how his passion for lexicography inspired him to write a book on the development of the Oxford English Dictionary.
