How To Use Lexicographic In A Sentence
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The DSUE was widely regarded as filling a lexicographical gap, because it treated four-letter words and sexual and scatological vulgarities that had previously been omitted by the OED and the general run of ‘family’ dictionaries.
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To show you how far down that slick slope we've slid, lexicographically speaking, consider that quaint contraction ain't.
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That's according to the author of said book, Susie Dent, dictionary mistress on Countdown and general lexicographical bod referred to in a report in today's Guardian.
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To be sure, the complications are not strictly lexical or even lexicographical: they stem chiefly from the differences between the kind of lexical alternation of the bonnet/hood, roundabout/traffic circle, dustman/garbage collector type and the type that is sociolinguistic and meaningless without some sort of acculturative comment, like tea, which occurs in both varieties of English but means quite different things in each, the Ashes, which doesn't occur at all in American English, and back bencher,
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
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In deploring pronunciation, Mr Johnstone is right in saying there is no lexicographical or etymological reason for the change of consular to ‘conshular’, but he forgets what sounds are involved.
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First, I have great respect for the lexicographic types who do these searches.
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May 25, 2006, 8: 58 am consolidation debt loan payday says: consolidation debt loan payday queues contained edicts glazer lexicographically
The Volokh Conspiracy » Garry Wills on Bellesiles on CSPAN2: People get taken by very good con men.–
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The lexicographical and philosophical cases coincide in their results.
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Some lexicographical and lexicological procedures are shown through analysis and contrasting of several terms.
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The Lexicographic Irregulars—from Olbom On Language’s Board of Octogenarian Mentors to the English teachers compelled to begin with the word anent—are my sources of inspiration and information.
No Uncertain Terms
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This well-known Arabist not only assisted me in passing the whole work through the press he also added a valuable treatise on Arabic Prosody (x. 233-258) with indexes of various kinds, and finally he supervised the MSS. of the Supplemental volumes and enriched the last three, which were translated under peculiar difficulties in analphabetic lands, with the results of his wide reading and lexicographical experience.
Arabian nights. English
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First, we characterize graphs whose tensor product and lexicographic product admit nowhere-zero 3-flows.
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Schott describes his blog as "a repository of unconsidered lexicographical trifles -- some serious, others frivolous, some neologized, others newly newsworthy.
Jerry Weissman: Language Lovers Unite
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Presumably this is the lexicographic inspiration for the Star Trek species the Ferengi, though the person who imaged the Ferengi language here was certainly not patterning it on French, ancient or modern.
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He attends a lexicographical congress in Chicago, where he is misunderstood by his colleagues, and returns to the Hunter library basement with renewed vigor.
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Aristotle regarded such figures and fancies as "adornments," but in the 19th century (which saw the birth both of Spooner and Sir James A.H. Murray's monstrous lexicographical child) the icing on the cake, all froth and saccharinity to the humorless rhetorician, becomes in fact the entire bill of fare; the rhetorical flourish, all we can discern of rhetoric, and the play on words, the word itself.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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Being usable , concise and standard is the other three criteria for good lexicographical translation.
