16.1035, Media: In Land of Lexicons, Having the Last Word

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Subject: 16.1035, Media: In Land of Lexicons, Having the Last Word

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Date: 04-Apr-2005
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: NYT: New lexicographer appointed for Oxford American Dictionary

	
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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:23:31
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: NYT: New lexicographer appointed for Oxford American Dictionary


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The New York Times

In Land of Lexicons, Having the Last Word
By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN
March 19, 2005
(Reposted by Richard Stoner on the SUNY Broome Community College server,
Binghamton, NY)

...At 33, [Erin McKean] is in charge of the Oxford American Dictionary.
(The others are American Heritage, Merriam-Webster, Webster's New World and
Encarta.) She was appointed last year, and the first Oxford dictionary
created under her auspices will hit stores next month. And she is not
alone. Ms. McKean is part of the next wave of top lexicographers who have
already or may soon take over guardianship of the nation's language, and
who disprove Samuel Johnson's definition of a lexicographer as 'a harmless
drudge.'

http://web.sunybroome.edu/~stoner_r/EN111InLandofLexicons.htm


Karen Chung
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/
Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)




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