Sentences with word «lexicographer»

The majority of lexicographers work on a freelance basis for publishing companies producing dictionaries and related resources.

We have a saying in Lancashire (my home county) that was originally attributed to a New Zealand lexicographer who studied in Manchester (lancashire)-- so he could well have heard it from some local folk.

Their use is loaded with meaning, and it's part of our job as lexicographers to capture this meaning as best we can.»

Its strangeness is due to the identity of its authors — the fiercely intelligent and challenging Justice Antonin Scalia the senior justice of the US Supreme Court, and the leading legal lexicographer of our time, Bryan Garner of LawProse in Texas.

The majority of lexicographers work on a freelance basis and rates of pay will depend on your experience and skills.

It provides the evidence of how language is used in real situations, from which lexicographers can write accurate and meaningful dictionary entries.»

All the Oxford lexicographers look forward to choosing the Word of the Year.

The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine whose etymology is given by Arab lexicographers as deriving from the verb qahiya, «to lack hunger», in reference to the drink's reputation as an appetite suppressant.

The internet embraced the trend in 2001, she writes, citing the work of lexicographer Ben Zimmer:

Encourage the future lexicographers in your classroom with the lessons below.

Ten years ago I finished my Ph.D. and married the world's most beautiful Antarctic lexicographer, Bernadette Hince.

In 2013, Dr Saul Frampton of the University of Westminster argued in The Guardian that Shakespeare's lover and the Dark Lady of his sonnets was not Aemilia, but Avis Danyell, the wife of John Florio, an Elizabethan lexicographer and translator.

The internet has enabled dictionaries to expand far beyond the limitations of print books — you no longer have to worry about things line breaks or page counts — but it also pushes lexicographers to work faster even as it completely upends the business side of things.

This makes sense considering how lexicographers make enemies among those who compete to brand and control words, or even just protect them from pejoration.

The panel's four speakers — Lord Judge; Lord Justice Stephen Tomlinson of the UK Court of Appeal (who was not an author); A.E. Dick Howard, Magna Carta scholar and professor of law at the University of Virginia; and lexicographer Bryan A. Garner — underscored the extent to which Magna Carta forms the foundation of the most important principles of American law, including due process, habeas corpus, and the right to trial by jury.

The preeminent lexicographer H. W. Fowler described this species of quotation - mark abuse succinctly:

Lexicographers get to decide what new words will get into next year's edition, and by doing so must choose where to position themselves in the war between descriptivists, who see their role as merely describing how the language is currently being used, and prescriptivists, who feel their role is to guide the reader on how to speak and write well.

But Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), the great writer and lexicographer said «How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice».

Competitor patents can be invalidated by uncovering with patent thesauri difficult to find, but highly relevant, prior art references reciting alternative terminology drafted by clever lexicographers.

I was fortunate to work with major publishing houses» linguists and lexicographer dictionary makers, as well as varied textbook topics; and with professors: authors here cross country as well as stateside, helping their theses and manuscripts get into galleys.

Its strangeness is due to the identity of its authors — the fiercely intelligent and challenging Justice Antonin Scalia the senior justice of the US Supreme Court, and the leading legal lexicographer of our time, Bryan Garner of LawProse in Texas... [more]

An Oxford lexicographer might need to snoop on Twitter spats from a decade ago; or they might have to piece together a painstaking biography of one of the oldest verbs in the language (the revised entry for «go» traces 537 separate senses over 1,000 years).

A digital publishing enthusiast focused on disruption, infrastructure, globalization, and new business models, Marie Bilde has spent 20 years in various areas of Danish publishing, holding positions as lexicographer, digital editor, and manager of digital production and distribution.

But even if the Word of the Year quickly fades into obscurity — actually, particularly if it does — the fact that it was selected in the first place captures a distinct moment in our culture as reflected through a group of lexicographers and dictionary consultants.

The selection process is official business, involving a research program that collects «around 150 million words of current English in use each month, using automated search criteria to scan new web content,» which allows the dictionary's lexicographers to identify «new and emerging words on a daily basis and examine the shifts that occur in geography, register, and frequency of use.»

Instead, the Word of the Year is chosen because, in the opinion of Oxford Dictionaries» lexicographers and consultants, it is «judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.»

It's a great quote — it covers so many bases: Lindsey Lohan, regulation, usage statistics — and one that somehow perfectly sums up how I envision Oxford Dictionaires» lexicographers and consultants go about selecting The Word of the Year, namely a mix of statistic crunching and scientific discussions of «what's hot on social media.»

The phrase «according to Christ» is not a lexicographer's phrase, but a theologian's.

Although the reformers did not actually say so, this meant that in effect, the grammarians, lexicographers, and historians could reform the Church because they knew better than the bishops what the Bible actually meant.

A writer, editor, lexicographer and onetime student of Ely Culbertson, Morehead edited Culbertson's Bridge World magazine, and later, from 1959 to 1963, wrote a daily bridge column for The New York Times.

For a half century, the lexicographer of the sport was Keith Jackson, and everyone else came in at a distant second at best.

Can any lexicographers — or set theory mathematicians — help?

Explain to students that Noah Webster was a lexicographer who compiled the first American dictionary.

A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer.

Simmons is a lexicographer who fuses live material and conceptual conceit; she deconstructs and retains a relation to specific times and places.

The experience of language not only shows how Voltaire worked, composing several dictionaries throughout his lifetime, but also how the artist Fabienne Verdier and Alain Rey, the lexicographer, have...

Bryan A. Garner, the president of Dallas - based LawProse Inc., was originally a Shakespearean scholar, then a legal lexicographer, then a writer on jurisprudence — as well as a book collector.

Samuel Johnson said that a lexicographer can not aspire to praise, but at most to escaping censure.

Laval law professor Mario Naccarato, in his paper «Of Couch Potatoes and Lexicographers: The Eternal Struggle Between Usage and the Imposed Neologism, and its Application to Legal Neology», 39 Rev Gen 229, talks some about neology and law.

One somehow doubts that the lexicographer author would be quite as adamant in saying that there is no constitutional justification for judicial law reform, that Roe v. Wade is nebulous (page 345) and that words must be given the meaning they had when the text was adopted (page 78).

A team of 80 lexicographers are currently preparing the third edition of the OED, which is 28 per cent complete.