Quotes About Lexicon

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

In Jenkins's personal lexicon, the Geheime Staatspolizei comprised the BCA's top management. It was also the proper name of the German Gestapo, though he probably wasn't pronouncing it correctly—not that Lucas knew for sure.

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

Though these had been used earlier in the Spanish Civil War, it was in Finland that the soubriquet "Molotov breadbasket," then "Molotov cocktail," first entered the military lexicon.

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.

By the 19th century, a stereotyped lexicon of alterity had come into being that included twisting, melismatic melodic lines and non-standard scales often featuring augmented seconds: