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unusual facts about Dictionaries



Adam Hanft

Published in 2001 and co-written with Faith Popcorn, Dictionary of the Future is described a collection of words and terms that have not yet entered mainstream dictionaries.

Al-Jawhari

Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (died circa 1003), a lexicographer who wrote one of the first large Arabic dictionaries

An Gúm

Many other dictionaries came out of An Gúm, such as those by Niall Ó Dónaill (Irish-English Dictionary) and Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion

This prize is awarded to reference works (dictionaries, encyclopedias, image banks, etc.) by the American Library Association and it was the first time, that an award has been given to a work in the design sector.

Bible paper

It is used for making Bibles, encyclopedias and dictionaries; as well as some fiction books such as the ones published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

Charles J. Fillmore

(with Sue Atkins) "Starting where the dictionaries stop: The challenge for computational lexicography".

Common Phonetic Spelling

The Common Phonetic Spelling is the phonetic spelling system devised in 2012 by the British-based Chinese lexicographer Ian Low in his Chinese to English dictionaries.

Core Foundation

The most prevalent use of Core Foundation is for passing its own primitive types for data, including raw bytes, Unicode strings, numbers, calendar dates, and UUIDs, as well as collections such as arrays, sets, and dictionaries, to numerous OS X C routines, primarily those that are GUI-related.

Data pack

Common data packs may include abbreviations, acronyms, dictionaries, lexicons and technical data, such as country codes, RFCs, filename extensions, TCP and UDP port numbers, country calling codes.

DICT

Dictionary, an application included with Mac OS X. Online dictionaries can be accessed by setting it as the helper for 'dict://' URI schemes.

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), which included as sister works A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

In 2001, with the help of Humanities Computing XML specialist Michael Beddow, the dictionaries were placed on the web in XML format with a search engine.

Disseny Hub Barcelona

It includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, a collection of electronic books, dictionaries and other reference resources, as well as, an extensive image bank.

Ectaco jetBook

jetBook uses the advanced T9 text input method that refers back to its pre-installed dictionaries to complete words as you type them (similar to the alphanumeric keypad on cell phones).

Étienne Marc Quatremère

Quatremère edited and translated part of Al-Maqrizi's, (1364–1442), Arabic History of the Mameluke Sultans (2 vols., 1837–41), "not because he had all that much interest in the history of Mamluk Egypt, but rather because he was fascinated by the vocabulary of fifteenth-century Arabic and particularly in those lexicographic nuggets that had not been defined in the standard of Arabic dictionaries".

Excel Central School

It possesses reference materials and sources such as encyclopaedias, childcraft, dictionaries, domestic and international children's research documents, newspapers, and a collection of child play-related materials, i.e. Audio & Video Compact Disc and Tapes .

Galoli language

Although it is not spoken by as many people as other national languages, it was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church in the district of Manatuto and thus has become fixed in grammars and dictionaries.

Golis Telecom Somalia

XOGMAAL enables enquiring, emailing through the mobile, and searching the largest online encyclopedias and dictionaries as well as search engines such as Google.

Herbert Coleridge

At age 27, as a member of the Philological Society, he formed a committee with Richard Chenevix Trench and Frederick Furnivall to identify and research words unlisted and undefined in English dictionaries of the period.

Interlingua Division of Science Service

The Interlingua Division also made publications of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) available, facilitated contacts among professionals of the same discipline, and opened IALA's extensive library, which included technical and general dictionaries, to the public at no cost.

James H. Davenport

He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust.

John Longmuir

He edited a combined version of John Walker's and Noah Webster's Dictionaries (London, 1864), and Walker's Rhyming Dictionary (London, 1865), with an introduction on English versification.

Josette Rey-Debove

She contributed to dictionaries for Le Robert, collaborating on the Petit Robert for the French language, at Robert des Enfants (the company's division for publishing the Children's Robert dictionaries), then to Dictionnaire du français (foreign language edition) and to Robert Méthodique-Brio.

Kongo language

Additional dictionaries were created by French missionaries to the Loango coast in the 1780s, and a word list was published by Bernardo da Canecattim in 1805.

Kory Stamper

Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries.

Mainline DHT

KRPC is a simple protocol that consists of nodes sending messages (queries, replies and errors) containing BEncoded dictionaries over UDP.

Mingrelian language

More recently, there has been some revival of the language, with the publication of dictionaries — Mingrelian-Georgian by Otar Kajaia, and Mingrelian-German by Otar Kajaia and Heinz Fähnrich — and poetry books by Lasha Gvakharia, Edem Izoria, Lasha Gvasalia, Guri Otobaia, Giorgi Sichinava, Jumber Kukava, and Vakhtang Kharchilava.

National Library of Medicine classification

Each main schedule, as well as some sub-sections, begins with a group of form numbers ranging generally from 1–49 which classify materials by publication type, e.g., dictionaries, atlases, laboratory manuals, etc.

Orin Hargraves

In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.

Peter Percival

His other publications include, a book on Tamil proverbs in English, English-Tamil and English-Telugu dictionaries, and a bilingual Tamil and Telugu journal Dinavartamani.

Richard Chenevix Trench

Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary.

Richard W. Bailey

In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today.

Round Table India

Round Table India released Braille Dictionaries in Tamil and Marathi languages and distributed the same to several blind institutions.

Sangeet Natak Akademi

Books on several subjects including Dance, Drama, Music, Theatre, Sociology, Folklore, Tribal Studies, Indian History and Culture, Indian Art, Religion and Epics, Mythology, Anthropology and Reference works such as Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Yearbooks, Bibliographies, Indexes and Newspaper clippings about Academy Awards and eminent artistes in the field of performing arts, can be found here.

Scottish Gaelic dictionaries

The first precursors of true Gaelic dictionaries were the vocabularies, often little less than wordlists, which made their first appearance in 1702 with Rev. Robert Kirk's wordlist, an appendix to William Nicolson's Scottish Historical Library.

Shri Kalyan Government College

Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other rare kinds of work which are in constant demand, costly books and other books which may from time to time be considered necessary for ready reference are placed in this section.

Slang Dictionary

Slang dictionary, a class of dictionaries of slang and informal language

Thank U

On French & Saunders, Jennifer Saunders parodied Morissette with a song called "Bless U", a tribute to thesaurus, dictionaries, spell check and other word referencing methods.

The Large Etymological Dictionary

Described as one of the most important Byzantine Dictionaries, it was released by Nikolaos Vlastos, owner of the first Greek press in Venice.

The Masque of Augurs

Scholarship has shown that Jonson utilized dictionaries and compilations by Robert and Charles Stephanus, Natalis Comes, Johannes Rosinus, and Caspar Peucer.

UTX

Universal Terminology eXchange, a set of formats for machine translation user dictionaries.

William W. Ellsworth

On September 14, 1813, he was married to Emily S. Webster, eldest daughter of Rebecca Greenleaf and Noah Webster Jr., publisher of dictionaries.

Wizcom Technologies

The product includes, at no extra cost, over 25 downloadable language dictionaries, including European languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian and various foreign languages which use different sets of characters such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Russian.

Zyzzyxdonta alata

The name, given to the snail by malacologist Alan Solem, is the last word in many species dictionaries, just after Zyzzyx; however, they both, in fact, precede Zyzzyzus.


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