Sentence examples for lexicons from inspiring English sources
The word 'lexicons' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a collection of words or a dictionary. For example: "The linguists referred to the ancient lexicons to gain insight into the language of the time."
WS Graham wrote in a 1977 poem of "Floating across the frozen tundra / of the lexicon and the dictionary", but I find lexicons to be more tropical jungle than tundra, gloriously ornate in their tendrilled outgrowths and complex root systems.
And there is nothing to suggest that other animals' neural lexicons are identical to, or any less varied than man's.
Newsreaders will occasionally slip in the correct but virtually unknown Hebrew word before its more popular equivalent, eg, "yakhda koalitsiya" (coalition), in a heroic but vain attempt to re-educate the masses.In its pure form, though, Hebrew is a spartan tongue, with one of the smallest lexicons of any major language.
In much of his poetry, Nagra employed Punglish, a form of English spoken by Punjabi-speaking Indians living in the U.K. The winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry, Mick Imlah, by contrast, borrowed more from the Victorian era than from Britain's new lexicons.
The age produced little original research, but lexicons (such as the 10th-century Suda), anthologies, encyclopaedias, and commentaries (such as the Lexicon and Bibliotheca of Photius) were produced in great number.
Of major linguistic importance were the many grammars, lexicons, and dictionaries published in Asia, including a Portuguese-Latin-Japanese glossary published in Nagasaki in 1604.
It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to rewrite the lexicon.
And a new word has entered the political lexicon, which may soon become inescapable.
That is, so long as the authorities haven't consolidated, rationalised and – well, take your pick from the beancounters' lexicon – I'll use destroyed one of the English summer's greatest joys.
Or as Cocker punchily puts it, "If acorn goes from the lexicon, the game is up for nature in England".
It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to rewrite the political lexicon".
