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unusual facts about lexicographer



1898 in Brazil

30 December - Luís da Câmara Cascudo, anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer (died 1986)

Abraham Colles

His grandson was the eminent music critic and lexicographer Henry Cope (H. C.) Colles.

Al-Jawhari

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

Alan William James Cousins

His grandfather on his mother's side was Sir James Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Cousins attended Murray's funeral at age 11.

Albert Hornby

A. S. Hornby (1898–1978), English grammarian, lexicographer and researcher into second language teaching

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (May 3, 1910 – February 28, 1989) was a Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer, best known for editing the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, a major dictionary of the Portuguese language.

Bergen Evans

Bergen Baldwin Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) was an American lexicographer, a Rhodes Scholar, a Harvard College graduate, a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host.

Bryan A. Garner

Bryan A. Garner (born November 17, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas) is a U.S. lawyer, lexicographer, and teacher who has written several books about English usage and style, including Garner's Modern American Usage and Elements of Legal Style.

Burchfield

Robert Burchfield CNZM CBE (1923–2004), scholar, writer, and lexicographer

Canadian Oxford Dictionary

Until September 2008, Oxford maintained a permanent staff of lexicographers in Canada, led by editor Katherine Barber.

Cape Roget

Discovered by Captain James Ross, 1841, who named it for Peter Mark Roget, noted English lexicographer who was Secretary of the Royal Society.

Centrocercus

In the time of Lewis and Clark the word 'pheasant' stood for "a genus of gallinaceous birds," according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense.

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.

Copyright Act of 1831

The bill is largely the result of lobbying efforts by American lexicographer Noah Webster.

Dag Gundersen

Dag Gundersen (born 15 January 1928 in Ringsaker, Hedmark) is a Norwegian linguist and lexicographer, dictionary editor and professor.

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.

Doniach

Nakdimon S. Doniach OBE (1907–1994), lexicographer and scholar of Judaic and Semitic languages

Facepalm

According to Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent, this versatility is one of the reasons that the word has been linguistically "successful".

George Merriam

After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary.

Gerhard Kittel

Gerhard Kittel (September 23, 1888, Breslau – July 11, 1948, Tübingen) was a German Protestant theologian, lexicographer of biblical languages, and open anti-Semite.

Gilliver

Peter Gilliver (born 1964), British lexicographer and dictionary editor

Gwennole Le Menn

Gwennole Le Menn (1938–2009) was a Breton writer, editor and lexicographer.

Harkavy

Alexander Harkavy (1863-1939), Russian Jewish writer and lexicographer, known for his Jewish-English Dictionary.

Hotten

John Camden Hotten (1832-1873), Victorian pornographer, publisher, lexicographer

Italians in the United Kingdom

The fifteenth century also saw the birth of a pivotal Italo-Englishman in the form of John Florio, a famed language teacher, lexicographer, and translator.

Jakopin

Franc Jakopin (1921–2002), Slovene linguist, slavist, lexicographer and onomastist, father of Primož

John Lemprière

Lemprière may have been influenced by another Pembroke man, the lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson, whose famous A Dictionary of the English Language had appeared in 1755.

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.

Joli Quentin Kansil

His first job was as personal assistant to Albert Hodges Morehead, a writer, lexicographer, and the first bridge editor of The New York Times.

Joseph Zedner

After completing his education, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders was his pupil.

Juška

Antanas Juška (1819–1880), Roman Catholic pastor, lexicographer, folklorist, and musicologist

Kory Stamper

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

Kythnos

(Possibly, the origin of the quote is from the 2nd century lexicographer Harpocration. See Smith, 1854. The entry on Kythnos is under the spelling "Cythnus").

Lemprière

John Lemprière (circa 1765-1824), English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster

Lorenz Diefenbach

Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806, Ostheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883, Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist associated with the German Nationalist movement.

M. de Guzman

Maria Odulio de Guzman, lexicographer and first Filipino female principal in a Philippine high school.

Mansur ad-Din

Muhammed Mansooruddin (1904–1987), Bangladeshi author, literary critic, lexicographer and song collector

Mościsko

Mojsije Margel - Croatian rabbi, lexicographer and Hebrew scholar

Nikolay Nikolsky

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (May 19, 1878 – November 2, 1961) - Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of Chuvash ethnicity.

Noah Webster

(October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

Passow

Franz Passow (1786–1833), a German classical scholar and lexicographer

Philip Babcock Gove

Philip Babcock Gove (1902-1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.

Roget Rocks

It is named after Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer, best known as author of Thesaurus of English words and phrases (London, 1852), a work frequently consulted in connection with Antarctic place-name proposals.

Rules of golf

It was entitled The Rules of Golf in Plain English, by the lexicographer Bryan A. Garner and USGA rules official Jeffrey S. Kuhn.

Simplified Spelling Board

In response to mounting criticism from British newspapers, the board announced the additions of James Murray, the Scottish lexicographer and primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, along with Joseph Wright, an Oxford University professor of comparative philology and editor of the English Dialect Dictionary.

Stender

Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714-1796), Latvian grammarian, lexicographer, and poet

Streatham Park

Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife Hester Thrale entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of the day, most notably the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who was fond of a summer house in the grounds.

Stulić

Joakim Stulić (1730–1817), lexicographer from the Republic of Ragusa, author of the biggest dictionary in the older Croatian lexicography


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