NYT: New lexicographer appointed for Oxford American Dictionary

[Mark A. Mandel]

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NYT: New lexicographer appointed for Oxford American Dictionary

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

    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