Think, if you will, what talent might have been given to the world if little Johnnie had had a large unabridged dictionary. With such an aid he might have been able to reach the piano keys. But no, his family had no such helpful device. Alas, he had no way to reach those beautifully noisy keys, and instead of becoming a great, although underpaid, musician, he had to lay bricks and amass great wealth in later life
Among word buffs, 1971 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that the Compact Edition of the Ox...
Our discrimination of dictionaries typically falls far short of the critical perspective that we rou...
A dictionary is a collection of words, each on accompanied by a preferred pronunciation, an etymolog...
Why do you have a house full of old dictionaries? What are they good for? What do you plan to do wit...
More than hundred 'Johnson's' dictionaries have so far been published not only in English but in oth...
I first met Great Uncle Derwent and Great Aunt Dolly when I was a young boy. Already mad about word...
I have a toolbox full of all sorts of tools. The other day I needed to pound a nail, but couldn’t fi...
<p>Abstract: Dictionaries have become essential tools of the modern world. Not only have dicti...
Dictionary making is the preoccupation of a lexicographer (dictionary compiler) and the art of makin...
Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first dictionary of the English language, included in its his defini...
Lexicography is considered a topic limited to the hallowed halls of learning; it is considered a sch...
The man in the street’s attitude of mind towards dictionaries is that they are the true repositories...
When we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning but also its function a...
It is a comparatively rare enterprise to amass a great personal collection of dictionaries. Unless t...
Dictionary making is the preoccupation of a lexicographer (dictionary compiler) and the art of makin...
Among word buffs, 1971 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that the Compact Edition of the Ox...
Our discrimination of dictionaries typically falls far short of the critical perspective that we rou...
A dictionary is a collection of words, each on accompanied by a preferred pronunciation, an etymolog...
Why do you have a house full of old dictionaries? What are they good for? What do you plan to do wit...
More than hundred 'Johnson's' dictionaries have so far been published not only in English but in oth...
I first met Great Uncle Derwent and Great Aunt Dolly when I was a young boy. Already mad about word...
I have a toolbox full of all sorts of tools. The other day I needed to pound a nail, but couldn’t fi...
<p>Abstract: Dictionaries have become essential tools of the modern world. Not only have dicti...
Dictionary making is the preoccupation of a lexicographer (dictionary compiler) and the art of makin...
Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first dictionary of the English language, included in its his defini...
Lexicography is considered a topic limited to the hallowed halls of learning; it is considered a sch...
The man in the street’s attitude of mind towards dictionaries is that they are the true repositories...
When we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning but also its function a...
It is a comparatively rare enterprise to amass a great personal collection of dictionaries. Unless t...
Dictionary making is the preoccupation of a lexicographer (dictionary compiler) and the art of makin...
Among word buffs, 1971 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that the Compact Edition of the Ox...
Our discrimination of dictionaries typically falls far short of the critical perspective that we rou...
A dictionary is a collection of words, each on accompanied by a preferred pronunciation, an etymolog...