Newsletter Fall 2024

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Newsletter Fall 2024 Table of Contents Member & Dictionary News Conference Update (Lisa Berglund) CFP: 2025 DSNA Project Grants In Memoriam: Reinhard R. K. Hartmann Upcoming Conferences Publication Information Member & Dictionary News What have you been up to? The DSNA loves to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more! Please send your news to dsnaadmin@gmail.com for inclusion; deadline for submissions for the Spring 2025 issue is Monday 24 March 2025. You can also see and share what’s happening on DSNA’s Member Forum, Facebook, and X/Twitter.  A flock of DSNA members have contributed to Edward Finegan and Michael Adams' forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary: "Bringing together cutting-edge research from a team of experts, this Handbook provides an all-encompassing account of dictionaries in context. It considers the cultural, social, intellectual and book history of dictionaries, as well as why they are made, and how they are edited, designed and published." (Preorder and discount information available here.) Alexander K. Bocast would like to announce one recent publication and one...
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2025 Project Grants

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We are pleased to announce that the Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in 2025 in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel in order to gather research or data. We welcome projects regarding any facet of lexicography, including but not limited to dictionaries or glossaries of any language or languages (including indigenous or minority languages) or scholarship regarding dictionaries or lexicography of any language or era. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each.Applications comprise three items: 1) a description (not to exceed 1,200 words) of the overall project, indicating what has been accomplished to date, what remains to be completed, and what the award funds...
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Newsletter Spring 2024

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Newsletter Spring 2024 Table of Contents Society Announcement: DSNA25 in Buffalo President's Message (Kory Stamper) Member & Dictionary News In Memoriam: Patrick Hanks (Orin Hargraves) In Memoriam: Philip M. Rideout (Michael Adams) Upcoming Conferences Publication Information Society Announcement: DSNA25 in Buffalo Buffalo State University and the University at Buffalo will host the 25th biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America, May 28–31, 2025, in Buffalo, New York. Conference chairs Lisa Berglund and Walter Hakala are already planning an exciting conference in celebration of the Society's 50th anniversary! President's Message Though it's an "off" and conference-less year for the DSNA at large, there are some big changes afoot. The first and foremost is that Dictionaries, our journal, will be joining Project MUSE's open-access pilot program, Subscribe2Open, or S2O for short. This innovative program will run from 2025–27, and all the issues of Dictionaries published during the program will be fully open access. In exchange, MUSE offers participating publishers a guaranteed minimum royalty for every year of participation. Our Executive Board and Publications...
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Newsletter Fall 2023

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Newsletter Fall 2023 Table of Contents Member & Dictionary News Conference Report (Orin Hargraves) A Life of Lexicography (Edward Finegan) CFP: Dictionaries Special Issue on "Talking Back to the Dictionary" Column: Quotations (Elizabeth Knowles) In Memoriam: Ari Kernerman (Ilan Ketrnerman, Michael Rundell) Upcoming Conferences Upcoming Events Publication Information Member & Dictionary News What have you been up to? The DSNA loves to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more! Please send your news to dsna.membernews@gmail.com for inclusion; deadline for submissions for the Spring 2024 issue is Monday 25 March 2024. You can also see and share what’s happening on DSNA’s Member Forum, Facebook, and Twitter.  Helen Zaltzman's The Allusionist, a podcast about language, features DSNA 24 presenters in recent episodes: Sterling Martin (Allusionist 180. Project ENABLE) and Lindsay Rose Russell (Allusionist 181. Cairns); George Aaron Broadwell forthcoming. Paul Schaffner has sent news of the recent update to the Middle English Dictionary: The Middle English Dictionary is pleased to announce that corrections and improvements made to the Dictionary during the last three years...
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Newsletter Spring 2023

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Newsletter Spring 2023 Table of Contents Member News Conference Update (Orin Hargraves) CFP: Dictionaries Special Issue on Indigenous Lexicography Column: Quotations (Elizabeth Knowles) In Memoriam Gerard Morris Gifts to the DSNA (Ed Finegan) News from the DSNA Office (Lindsay Rose Russell) Upcoming Conferences Publication Information Member News What have you been up to? The DSNA loves to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more! Please send your news to dsna.membernews@gmail.com for inclusion; deadline for submissions for the Fall 2023 issue is Friday 25 August 2023. You can also see and share what’s happening on DSNA’s Member Forum, Facebook, and Twitter.  David Vancil has published a collection of poetry, Expiation: War and Its Discontents (Kelsay Books, 2022). It’s available for purchase on Amazon.com and on the publisher’s website. Dabney A. Bankert's book, Philology in Turbulent Times: Joseph Bosworth, His Dictionary, and the Recovery of Old English has been published as part of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies series Publications of the Dictionary of Old English. Bankert's detailed analysis of the creation of Joseph Bosworth and...
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Newsletter Fall 2022

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Newsletter Fall 2022 Table of Contents Member & Dictionary News In Memoriam: Jeremiah P. Farrell In Memoriam: E. Ward Gilman by John Morse In Memoriam: Vincent McCarren by David Jost Upcoming Conferences Publication Information Member & Dictionary News After being announced in Dictionaries 42.1 in 2021, Charlotte Brewer and Stephen Turton’s pilot digital edition of the correspondence of James A. H. Murray, the first chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, went live at www.murrayscriptorium.org in July 2022. *********** The University of Minnesota Press announces Anatoly Liberman’s Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms (Pub date: February 28, 2023): As author Anatoly Liberman so rightly notes, language is the most mysterious tool we use. Yet while language allows us to express thoughts, the way people use language is not always clear. To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the first truly all-encompassing etymological guide...
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Newsletter Spring 2022

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Newsletter Spring 2022 Table of Contents Society Announcement: Project GrantsMember NewsColumn: Quotations by Elizabeth KnowlesColumn: Michael Hancher Retiring from Classroom Lectern by Edward FineganIn Memoriam: Allan Metcalf by Joan HallUpcoming ConferencesNews from the DSNA Office by Lindsay Rose RussellReport from DSNA's Globalex Representative Orin HargravesReport from DSNA's ACLS Delegate Jack LynchPublication Information Society Announcement: Project Grants The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel to sites to gather data from libraries or native speakers. While awards are not limited as to language, projects related to Indigenous languages of the Americas are encouraged. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each. Applications comprise three...
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2022 Project Grants

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The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel to sites to gather data from libraries or native speakers. While awards are not limited as to language, projects related to Indigenous languages of the Americas are encouraged. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each. Applications comprise three items: 1) a description (not to exceed 1,200 words) of the overall project, indicating what has been accomplished to date, what remains to be completed, and what the award funds would cover or enable; 2) a list of other sources of support for the project that have been secured or are...
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