Diesel, The Big Aristotle, Shaq Daddy, M.D.E….The Big Lexicographer??

Thank you SHAQ for being the most DOMINANT Word Icon ever.

In the ´90s my Argentine mum (living in the UK since the 80s) worked as a lexicographer for Ox Uni Press which launched a BrEng/Rioplatense bilingual dictionary. If there is ONE thing which would exponentially improve my quality of life it would be the latest edition of this.

Ms II 492 KBR: a collection of letters by Italian linguist and lexicographer Filippo Venuti, c. 1550, owned by the Egizio family in the 17th century, hence the binding and the 1606 owner’s note on the title page.
 
Recently digitized: uurl.kbr.be/2147642

'If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted' -
Noah Webster

Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author

Webster's name has

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. - Ambrose Bierce

'What's for tea invited so many responses'

On #BBCBreakfast lexicographer Susie Dent has been discussing regional dialect and how different word for different things 'makes us feel like we belong'

bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cz…

No, but from your mediocre vantage point, it CERTAINLY seems so.

You failed to realise the subtle fact that a lexicographer must be an empiricist, working within concepts and social contexts to detect synonyms.

If your education wasn’t an indictment, you would know this.

Everyone having much fun with this thing. This is what happens when you have people to “do the social media” for you. I can assure you no lexicographer posted this.

#OTD 142 years ago, Elise Wipf (1882-1929) was born 🥳 An expert dialectologist and lexicographer. She was the first woman to join the editorial board of the Swiss German Dictionary (Idiotikon) in 1908.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Shortcut to becoming an 'accomplished' lexicographer. 🧧

'The sailor and traveler... the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.'
— Walt Whitman

بوتون تورکلره تبریک لر بو گون:

950th anniversary of the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (Compendium of the Turkic dialects), written by the lexicographer and philologist Mahmud al-Kashgari (1074)
$oort #HalaMadrid
#آنادیلیم #رای_میدهم #روز_دختر #بازی_دراز
#حضرت_معصومه

So many people ask me 'How do you get to be a lexicographer?' - well, here's an opportunity ...

Them: Do you pronounce “gala” GAY-luh or GAL-uh?

Me, dramatically lowering Brown-Driver-Briggs to meet their gaze: A lexicographer does not reveal (גלה) his secrets

#MetGala

Today someone sent me their college paper on place name tautologies. It includes a definition of 'tautology' from the OED and I want the lexicographer responsible for this definition to know: I see what they did there and I love it #NYTXW

leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ 👑 Joey Barton 👑 Ludicrous that the case rests upon the definition of slang parlance. Interpretation must be down to the individual surely. Will the judge bring in an expert lexicographer to decide? Gravy train for the lawyers methinks.
Petty and pointless really.

maybe: jasper Merriam-Webster let me know if you want me to forward you the dictionary of obscure words I wrote in high school during my lexicographer era

Ever heard of Fréderic Mistrál?
'Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature 'in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production'.'
Read Herbert to learn more about him.

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was a prominent Iranian literary writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He was the author of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language published to date.
#IranInReality

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