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Guy Dammann: what's in an online dictionary? - Read More

Date Added: September 20, 2008 06:18:04 PM
One of the few things about which the great Samuel Johnson was in serious error was his definition of the lexicographer as a "harmless drudge". For while drudgery may certainly be involved in the writing of dictionaries and the "detailing of the signification of words", as he put it, the office of imposing limits and controls upon the principal tools we use to understand ourselves and the world ...

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