Sentence examples for dictionary makers from inspiring English sources

It is dictionary makers who have to confront most directly the dilemma of Mr. Lynch's title.

But dictionary makers don't announce what they take out of their books.

Another is that dictionary users and dictionary makers sometimes have very different notions of what a dictionary is for.

Dictionary makers take a special interest in high-frequency collocations, since they can be the key to understanding how words work in the world.

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Mr. Lynch, an expert on Samuel Johnson, spends a good deal of time on the evolution of dictionaries, doing a fine job of conveying the daunting task facing Johnson and all the dictionary makers since: How do you collect every known word, decide between competing spellings, reflect shades of meaning, separate faddish uses from the ones that will endure, and so on?

A fine four-volume, leather-bound 1816 edition of Boswell's life of the real Johnson goes to Tom Miles, of, by happy accident, London itself, the great dictionary maker's home.

I have devoted my working life to the task of being a dictionary maker, and wrote much of this book while working at the OED in Oxford and when I was Chief Editor of Oxford Dictionaries, Australia.

The Oxford lexicographers do not pretend to know why, nor, as dictionary-makers, to care.

Dictionary-makers, cooks & printers have struggled with the word, & with the dish itself, for at least 200 years.

These are just four of roughly 3,500 new entries that dictionary-makers in Oxford have licensed as part of standard English.