O'Hagan review of Hitchings

[Jonathan Lighter]

Well said, Arnold. O'Hagan's gratuitous plan of disparagement suggests that lexicographers are spoiled, petty, and spiteful, regardless of gender.

  JL

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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new, improved, and expanded version of my critique of this review:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003097.html

"The bitchiness of lexicographers and NYRB reviewers"

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