Lexicography Quotes

Lexicographer—A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

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Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

To be a lexicographer, you must be able to sit with a word and all its many, complex uses and whittle those down into a two-lined definition that is both broad enough to encompass the vast majority of the word's written use and narrow enough that it actually communicates something specific about this word—that "teeny" and "measly," for instance, don't refer to the same kind of smallness.

Lexicographers spend a lifetime swimming through the English language in a way that no one else does; the very nature of lexicography demands it.

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