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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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But even if a dictionary isn't designed to "reflect the lexicon",
studying how well it does so may still be a useful thing.

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> "To gauge how well dictionaries reflect the lexicon,."
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> This suggests to me that the traditional scope and purpose (also
adequacy)
> of general dictionaries is being challenged by computer people who may
be
> totally unfamiliar with lexicography as the craft is practiced. I
rather
> doubt they have even read the preface to even a respectable college
> dictionary let alone the OED.  I may very well be wrong and will stand
> corrected humbly if I am.
>

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