Quotes About Lexicon

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words are being used.

Although the language of North Korea and South Korea is similar, there are big differences in the vocabulary.

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jews have four hundred for schmuck.

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.

We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitrarily selective work the Oxford English Dictionary is. It simply doesn't recognize huge wodges of human experience.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

What's another word for thesaurus?

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

the Zulu language has 39 words for green.

Quotation lovers love rare words.

You employ large phrases.

Along with tableity (the condition of being a table) and paneity (the state of being bread), cellarhood is a wonderful example of the spectacular ways English has of describing things that no ever thinks it necessary to describe.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.