Tag: Fall 2020

Kory Stamper was recently part of the solution to a NYT acrostic. And the quotation is about lexicographers. See more at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/crosswords/variety-acrostic.html From Sarah Ogilvie we hear about the new book, The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century (OUP, 2020) edited by Sarah Ogilvie & Gabriella Safran. It looks at the creation of dictionaries globally in the nineteenth century and includes essays on languages as diverse as Manchu Chinese, Russian, Libras (Brazilian sign language), and Persian (to name but a few) by scholars including Michael Adams, John Considine, Anne Dykstra, Ed Finegan, Volker Harm, Sarah Ogilvie, Susan Rennie, Lindsay Rose Russell, Gabriella Safran, Peter Sokolowski, and Ilya Vinitsky. From David Barnhart: Barnhart’s Never-finished Political Dictionary of the 21st Century—Second Edition (c. 2019) is now available from the publisher: Lexik House Publishers, P.O. Box 2018, Hyde Park, N.Y. 12538 This edition is substantially enlarged from the original publication (698 + viii pp).  It is composed of 3,500+ entries, over 5,000 quotations, and 50 articles devoted...

1. To make it easier to navigate the Newsletter the introduction will now contain a TOC to the various posts of the Newsletter. 2. Member News: Peter Chipman offers news that has been gathered about our members. 3. Conferences: Orin Hargraves announces the DSNA’s next conference and a Call for Papers, and Lise Winer lists conferences of interest. 4. DSNA: Elizabeth Knowles, our president, addresses our Society and Ed Finegan reports on Globalex. He also brings an interesting puzzle to our attention from a past issue of our Journal. 5. Dictionaries: We offer material on three major North American dictionary projects, the MED, DARE, and DOE. 6. Collections: David Vancil discusses the Library of Congress. 7. Madeline Kripke is memorialized by Jonathon Green, Michael Adams, and David Vancil. 8. Education: Katie Welch tells us how she uses dictionaries in the college classroom for sociolinguistic inquiry. 9. History: David Jost offers a history of the staff of the Middle English Dictionary. 10. State of Lexicography: Orin Hargraves tells us about...