Quotes About Lexicon

documents—a luxury that earlier lexicographers never enjoyed.

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

Every field of knowledge has its own technical vocabulary.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

To coin new words is to arrogate to oneself legislative power in matters of language, which is rarely successful [...]

The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language, not set its style.

A dictionary should be descriptive, not prescriptive.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.

I would like a dictionary though. A dictionary contains all the books ever written and all the books that will ever be written. That's something isn't it? The words aren't in the right order, of course, but it's still something.

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

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.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?" The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake." "What book?" "It's The Shadow Death Lexicon." "Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.

There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

Word retrieval emergency

There is no sense in doing without the concepts of metaphysics in order to attack metaphysics. We have no language—no syntax and no lexicon—which is alien to this history; we cannot utter a single destructive proposition which has not already slipped into the form, the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest.

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para expresarla, mientras el vocabulario de los sufrimientos morales y físicos llena innumerables columnas en los diccionarios de todas las lenguas.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

If there wasn't an English word for it, though, then it was probably work best avoided, at least until she was really desperate. The

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.