How To Use Lexicographer In A Sentence
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If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification ofwords.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 4):
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If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 4):
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It might even be argued that the work has already been done, namely by the lexicographers, and has been incorporated into the larger dictionaries of the better studied languages.
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Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography.
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To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
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Johnson would have none of it: he scorned the lexicographer who deluded himself that he could ‘embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay’.
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I'll let you enjoy the silly stuff over there; here I want to highlight one paragraph about finding new words and usages on the internet:That's where Oxford lexicographer Erin McKean has found words like farb (not authentic, badly done), nomenklatura (non-literally; by analogy), drabble (a short story of 100 words or fewer), haxie (a hack for the Macintosh operating system) and swancho (a combination poncho/sweater).
Languagehat.com: NOMENKLATURA?
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For example, he defined "lexicographer" as "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
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Once we have secured exclusive rights to the word, the Minister for Education should seek an audience with the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary with a view to getting the word entered into the dictionary.
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Identify, please, a father and son double-act, a brace of lexicographers, the Prime Minister's generic neighbour, an almanack compiler and a naval hero and explain the journalistic connection.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.
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Therefore he reasoned that "epiphenomenon" had been built up to accommodate some modern theory of thought, some new leprosy of the mind never dreamed of by the noble lexicographer.
The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance
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Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time.
Languagehat.com
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For a lexicographer, it can be fascinating to observe their fight for survival.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He even won a number of skirmishes with Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great English lexicographer, poet, and critic, who sneered at American words as "barbarisms" and the language of the Yankees as a "dialect," then a pejorative term.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
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Their value consists particularly in the assemblage of material drawn from the old scholia and the lost works of earlier scholars and lexicographers.
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Other English equivalents for antiphonary are antiphonar (still in reputable use) and antiphoner (considered obsolete by some English lexicographers, but still sometimes used in current liteature).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Mathematicians have wrestled with this question (which is more complex than most laypeople would likely think), but now it turns out that lexicographers have, too.
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The " Journal of Lexicographers " is a bimonthly.
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So with DARE’s classicist, George Goebel, the great lexicographer turned from Latin to Greek: deutero means “second” and chiliast refers to the biblical “kingdom of a thousand years.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Tables of lexicographers and of the group memberships of lexicographers are created and maintained by the database administrator.
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The disk storage available is defined by the System Supervisor for each lexicographer.
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I bought this because I'd toyed with it for ages - the story of a lexicographer who also happened to be a psychopath.
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Any traveler knows that in France an auberge is an inn, but we are told in the O.E.D., on the alleged authority of the great French lexicographer, Littré, that in this fruity and enigmatic case, "auberge" is a variant of "alberge," a word for peach.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
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Compensation is now a mental disease that will challenge the lexicographers of medical dictionaries to define a mindset which I can only describe as compensationitis.
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If Dr Samuel Johnson were given the chance to join the web 2.0 generation and post a video definition of his favourite word on the internet, he may have chosen "lexicographer".
Telegraph Blogs
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He's no empty-headed pop culture cheerleader, though - he takes a lexicographer's delight in language, and is a self-confessed history geek.
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Lexicographers drudge all day long
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Later lexicographers were less coy than Johnson.
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Clifford Wright has this to say: "The Arabs ruled both Spain and Sicily for centuries, and as a result the word escabeche can be traced to the dialectal Arabic word iskibaj, which the great lexicographer Joan Corominas describes as deriving from the older sikbaj, meaning" a kind of meat with vinegar and other ingredients.
The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans
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I offer this material as fodder for lexicographers, along with some speculations about the development of innovative moreso/ more so.
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A lexicographer briefly worked there as a tutor.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for our ever-expanding vocabulary, lexicographers cannot data mine the information tsunami fast enough to record each new tech term entering the mainstream.
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When America's greatest lexicographer writes me an ungrammatical message on a double-barreled slate, signs it "noeh webstur," and instructs his terrestial to deliver it to me on payment of one cart-wheel dollar, I suspect that there's something sphacelated in the psychological Denmark.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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(and expensive) tasks from the lexicographer and, by eliminating the necessity of maintaining staff to do things like alphabetization, checking to make certain that all words used in definitions are entries, and other routine functions, has allowed the journeyman dictionary-maker the freedom to focus on more important matters.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2
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Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language.
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When you cannot remember what sedulous means, or you want to find out why somebody called you a hellion, you do not have to bother opening the dictionary or calling your local lexicographer.
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In both instances, Hebrew and English dictionaries, the lexicographers have paid no attention to the insights and distinctions of medical anthropologists.
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Just as mysteriously, in a little more than a century, a new past tense form, snuck, has crept and then rushed out of dialectal use in America, first into the areas of use that lexicographers label jocular or uneducated, and more recently, has reached the point where it is a virtual rival of sneaked in many parts of the English-speaking world.
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That isn't the function of a lexicographer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. '
A History of English Literature
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We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth.
On Dictionaries
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A lexicographer's job is to describe the language.
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There is an important and very common use of the word ˜word™ that lexicographers and the rest of us use frequently.
Types and Tokens
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At best, a dictionary can enumerate only some of the more salient semantic distinctions, and different lexicographers are liable to employ different criteria in their assessments.
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While originally coined in Britain by the head of the Labour Party Ed Miliband, the phrase "squeezed middle" resonated with the American lexicographers as well.
ABC News: Top Stories
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In doing this, lexicographers generally take the view that homonymy relates to different words whose forms have converged while polysemy relates to one word whose meanings have diverged or radiated.
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The system will suspend the access rights of lexicographers who do not change their passwords every month.
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To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
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That is why they have come to the attention of the lexicographers.
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On the other hand, lexicographers apparently find no evidence that this was in fact the word's origin.
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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:
Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash
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In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term.
Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
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Ghost words are created accidentally by lexicographers, and when they are exposed they generally fade away.
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In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
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Webster's lexicographers thus might say that because a residence can be a ‘business establishment,’ a residence can be viewed as a ‘retail pet store’ if dogs are sold there.
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Indeed, it is more a work of hopeful multicultural idealism than a dictionary in the lexicographer's sense.
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A Spanish lexicographer of authority says that the cigar has the form of a "cicada" of paper, and, on the whole, it is highly probable that the likeness of the roll of tobacco-leaf to the cylindrical body of the insect (_cigarra_) was the reason that the "cigarro" was so called.
The Social History of Smoking
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Here Pope is reported to have said of Patrick, the lexicographer, that "a dictionary-maker might know the meaning of one word, but not of two put together.
All About Coffee
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The lexicographers behind Britain's Collins English Dictionary have decided to exuviate (shed) rarely-used and archaic words as part of an abstergent (cleansing) process to make room for up to 2,000 new entries.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Of course, a dictionary does not represent the lexicographer's own language use.
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Contributors range from in-house lexicographers and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.
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Tables of lexicographers and of the group memberships of lexicographers are created and maintained by the database administrator.
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A lexicographer's job is to describe the language.
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These eminent lexicographers reckon that the golden days of literacy have past.
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For example, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary liken the lexicographer to the naturalist.
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Other English equivalents for antiphonary are antiphonar (still in reputable use) and antiphoner (considered obsolete by some English lexicographers, but still sometimes used in current liteature).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Any lexicographer may obtain entry text for read only or for proofing regardless of ownership or the status of the on-loan flag.
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But there's nothing definite for the lexicographer to grasp hold of.
Times, Sunday Times
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Certainly, in terms of understanding etymology, syntax and grammar, a classical education is a useful qualification for a lexicographer - a job that's a combination of logic, aesthetics and problem-solving.
