Tag: Cultural Struggles
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The Serious Business of Dictionaries: An Insight into the World of Lexicography
The creator of the first great English dictionary, Samuel Johnson, once wickedly mocked his own trade by defining a lexicographer as “a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.” Yet, dictionaries are serious business, and the people who devote themselves to them are anything but harmless. Dictionaries…