Sentence examples for dictionary writers from inspiring English sources

Dictionary writers are not kind to flummery.

Loosey-goosey descriptive lexicographers, with their anything-goes passivity, deride prescriptive pop grammarians like me as control freaks, but I look bemusedly at those roundheeled dictionary writers as common-usage nuts.

"Lexicography has always been a back-and-forth between dictionary readers and dictionary writers, and one of the great things about social is that we have a direct line between those two.

The name was taken from Samuel Johnson, the English language's first great dictionary writer.

That's the premise of The Accidental Dictionary, writer and etymologist Paul Anthony Jones' latest book.

So judges, listen to the people and to your own sense of the language; the dictionary-writers are watching you.

Lest they err again, John introduced the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors to the paper, with a special supplement written by him for his fellow journalists.

This dictionary provides writers and editors from all fields of science with a clear and concise style guide for preparing scientific material for publication.

He compiled the invaluable Dictionary of Writers and Their Works (1991), and in 2002 completed the massive Oxford Chronology of English Literature.

And the Times is writing about this, closing the loop.Rather than rely on dictionaries, statute-writers should be as careful as possible to use words in the way that they are commonly understood (especially in quality edited writing).

His vast biographical dictionary of the writers and ecclesiastics who had been educated at Oxford appeared as Athenae Oxonienses (1691 92).