[Ads-l] Article in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Wed Oct 3 23:54:07 UTC 2018



> On Oct 3, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Me too and me too, respectively.  Indeed, my mailer tells me that when I type “antedater" I really meant “anteater”.  Maybe someone should work on a logo—an anteater, perhaps with bifocals, perusing a dictionary, with the “d” of dictionary dropping gently between the (first) <e> and (second) <a> of the ANTE_ATER caption.

i think we *definitely* need a logo of this sort: anteater with fleeting D.

arnold


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