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<div>hie, l am a student at the univesity and l am doing my dissertation on the revision of dictionaries and l was wondering if you could help me with information regarding the following : </div> <div>factor sthat motivate revising a dictionary</div> <div>the focus of the exercise </div> <div>issue sthat emanate from the revision exercise </div> <div>Your contributions will be of great considerations </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>"Kenneth C. Hill" <kennethchill@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><!-- Network content --> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <div>One thing that strikes me about this list is the fact
that these English-language favorite categories are often used to make judgments about other languages (and their speakers, of course). I work on Hopi, a language once thought to have no word for "time" -- which it does have, though time probably ranks quite low on the list of Hopi preferred conversational topics. People have made all sorts of strange judgments about a culture believed to lack our sense of time.<BR><BR>Regarding the second-place noun in the list: in my work on modern Mexicano (otherwise known as Aztec, Nahuatl) I found no native word for "person", instead the language uses the Spanish loan "cristiano". I don't know how this lexical caregory was treated in pre-European-<WBR>conquest times. But note that the English word "person" is also a loan, though it has been used in English in the sense of "human being" since 1225 (according to the OED).<BR><BR>--Ken<BR><BR><B><I>"David K. Barnhart" <dvdbrnhrt@yahoo.<WBR>com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE
class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><!-- Network content --> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <DIV>--- In <A href="mailto:lexicographylist%40yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</A>, "John Roberts"<BR><dr_john_roberts@<WBR>...> wrote:<BR>><BR>> It is not often that lexicographers feature on the BBC news website but <BR>> there is a posting there today where they do. The OUP have<BR>researched what <BR>> are the most common nouns in the English language. The most common is <BR>> "time". This is partly because of the scores of expressions in English <BR>> featuring time. But it is mainly because English speakers like to<BR>talk about <BR>> time a lot.<BR>> <BR>> TOP 10 NOUNS<BR>> 1 Time<BR>> 2 Person<BR>> 3 Year<BR>> 4 Way<BR>> 5 Day<BR>> 6 Thing<BR>> 7 Man<BR>> 8 World<BR>> 9 Life<BR>> 10 Hand<BR>> <BR>> But I found the most interesting comment was this:<BR>> <BR>>
"The thing that struck me when I put together this list was that 90%<BR>of the <BR>> top 100 words were one syllable, and that a large proportion were<BR>actually <BR>> from Old English, meaning the <BR><BR>basic words we use all the time in basic <BR>> sentences are from before the Norman Conquest," he said. "We always<BR>put the <BR>> focus on new words, changing language and words from other<BR>countries, but in <BR>> reality the basic language we use has been the same for hundreds and <BR>> hundreds of years."<BR>> <BR>> This means that at a fundamental level the English language hasn't<BR>changed <BR>> much for over 2000 years.<BR>> <BR>> John Roberts<BR>><BR><BR>It seems interesting to me that _time_ is also the first noun in The<BR>American Heritage Word Frequency Book (1971) and in The Brown Count<BR>(1967). <BR><BR>Regards,<BR>David K. Barnhart<BR><BR><A
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