The best English dictionary

[Barnhart]

Just because "dictionary" appears in the title doesn't mean that it has
been made with any understanding of "good" lexicography.  Good
dictionaries are quite complicated, perhaps in part because language is a
complex system.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Friday, June 03, 2005
at 11:00 AM -0500 wrote:
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>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>At 12:59 PM +0200 6/3/05, Paul Frank wrote:
>>  >From my blog:
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>>http://languagejottings.blogspot.com/2005/06/best-english-dictionary.html
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>>I realize that DARE lists ghost turd, but I still think I've found the
>best
>>English dictionary out there. Not that I was the first to find it...
>>
>>Paul
>>______________________________________
>>Paul Frank
>>English translation
>>from Chinese: humanities and the social sciences
>>from German, French, and Spanish: sinology
>>www.languagejottings.blogspot.com
>>e-mail: paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
>
>Interesting claim, Paul.  But wouldn't the ideal "best dictionary"
>resource also direct you somewhere useful (if only to the plural)
>when you look up "ghost turd" (in the singular) rather than throw up
>its hands and shrug its shoulders as http://www.onelook.com/ does?
>
>Larry