#lexicography — Public Fediverse posts

I'm enjoying this interview with etymologist Suzie Dent, on Count Binface's podcast;

https://shows.acast.com/trash-talk-with-count-binface/episodes/susie-dent-your-political-presents

So far, I've learned the history of words like 'mugwump' and 'hangdog'. Also that Binface doesn't have much time for Jimmy Carr, Boris Johnson, or Mrs Brown's Boys ; )

#SuzieDent #CountBinface #lexicography

Here's the blog he runs for the IU Library's Kripke Collection and it is full of fun stuff! #archives #dictionaries #lexicography #thatwordChat
https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/tag/kripke-collection/

For those of you who like this sort of thing, here's a neat little BBC news story on the origins of the now ubiquitous phrase; 'not fit for purpose'.

It tracks its widening use & its (continuing) relevance to the Home Office. If politics is in part carried out in language then a bit of lexicographical history is always interesting. Enjoy

#politics #lexicography

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dl18ndvydo

The FAKE words in the dictionary — dive into spooky "ghost words" that slipped into dictionaries despite not existing! RobWords unpacks why they appear and why lexicography is full of surprises. Curious? Tune in! #words #etymology #linguistics #language #lexicography #dictionary #wordnerd #ghostwords #Education #English
https://tube.blueben.net/videos/watch/454909c0-d065-4ffb-aea5-180e258cd49c

Nice interview with Kory Stamper in #PublishersWeekly about #colors and her new book. I'm going to ask my public library to buy it!
#lexicography
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99521-the-quixotic-quest-to-define-color-words-pw-talks-with-kory-stamper.html

🧐 Behold, half a million “words with spaces” the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! 🤯 Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! 😂📚
https://www.linguabase.org/words-with-spaces.html #wordswithspaces #lexicography #wordgames #languageinnovation #lostclassics #HackerNews #ngated

A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Green’s Dictionary of Slang—the definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other ne’er-do-well words—is now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicography

https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html

Adaption of Randall Munroe's "Average Familiarity", https://xkcd.com/2501/ (CC-BY-NC 2.5), thanks to https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/

#lexicography #Germanistik #dictionaries #xkcd #mittelhochdeutsch

Enjoying this mallifuff Sunday.

#sundayfunday #humor #humour #lexicography

And from the same site, I enjoyed this rant about a New Yorker article about dictionary-making https://languagehat.com/menand-on-the-dictionary/

#dictionaries #lexicography #language #words #MerriamWebster #blog

https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/dictionary-lexicography-threnody/

Not all of "Commentary" is superfluous!

#Lexicography #Dictionaries

A few entries from the language section of The Standard Dictionary of Facts, published 1920 and recently purchased by me. Looking forward to reading through all the prescriptivist entries to see what sort of language use people were fretting about over a century ago.

(I particularly love the entry for “dearest”, which made me laugh out loud.)

#language #linguistics #prescriptivism #lexicography

Hype for the Future 49D: The Galician Language

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/hype-for-the-future-49d-the-galician-language/

The first ever monolingual Irish dictionary has been launched
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1209/1548134-new-irish-dictionary/

#Irish #Gaeilge #foclóir #dictionary #Ireland #lexicography

When your favorite media outlet publishes something that pertains to your field, the result is a must-read.

https://defector.com/how-a-campy-1970s-game-show-became-part-of-canadas-national-lexicon?giftLink=2a2bf81aa6e14ff1426f25660ac00408

#linguistics #lexicography #slang #Canada #defector #GongShow

Is “al desko” a word? Really? #English #dictionary #lexicography

@mrundkvist I'm starting with dictionary entries like this one to get a basic understanding. Then I will look at examples of the word in use (in MHG texts, that is), starting with 34 samples I have from digitized & lemmatized texts, and expanding from there via various sources pointing me to further references. From that material I will build the new dictionary entry.

#lexicography

Wauw! Forslaget har opnået 5.000 underskrifter på 3 uger. Det er en rigtig god start.

For at nå målet på 50.000 inden marts, så skal det tempo holdes. Så:

🖊️ Skriv under
🔁 Del
🗣️ Tal om det med dem I kender

#borgerforslag #DenDanskeOrdbog #dansk #Danish #lexicography #dictionary #𝙳𝙺Pol

"What is interesting now is the arrival of slang that draws not on language, but on digital memes, from Tik-Tok and elsewhere. This is a whole new ball game..."

Jonathon Green, aka Mister Slang: https://jonathongreen.substack.com/p/all-together-now

#slang #language #lexicography #dictionaries #words

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary

https://lithub.com/how-to-build-a-dictionary-on-the-hard-art-of-popular-lexicography/

James Murray at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4072

#dictionaries #lexicography