quotes about Lexicographer
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The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.
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The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.
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By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
-- Erin McKeanSource : "Erin McKean comes to terms with fashion" by Beth Hughes, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2012.
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Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.
-- Jessica MitfordSource : JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”
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“Do you wanna be really really awesome? Just keep watching me.”
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Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
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“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”
Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics