Newsletter Spring 2026
Newsletter Spring 2026
Table of Contents
Member News
In Memoriam:
Ian Lancashire (Carol Percy)
Ken Litkowski (Orin Hargraves)
Frances McSparran
Javier Ruano-García (Giovanni Iamartino)
DSNA26 to be held at UC Davis
Symposium Report: The Whole World in a Book (Beth Rapp Young)
Upcoming Conferences
Publication Information
Member News
Lynne Murphy has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant to study “Defining the Undefinable: The Lexicography of Functional Vocabulary.” She’ll be undertaking that study from August 2026 for two years.
Kory Stamper's long-awaited book on color defining in Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, was released on March 31, 2026. True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–from Azure to Zinc Pink is available from booksellers in the US and UK now.
Jeremy Withers is pleased to announce the publication in June of his book Birding English: The History of a Language in 50 Birds (University of Iowa Press). DSNA members might recall that Jeremy presented at our most recent conference in Buffalo on the birds in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language....