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The Dictionary Society of North America was formed in 1975 to bring together people interested in dictionary making, study, collection, and use.

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Coming soon: The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary, ed. Edward Finegan and Michael Adams (Cambridge University Press: June 2024). https://t.co/bIG0V8ijQ0

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CFP:The history of lexicography: language variation in bilingual lexicography 1500-1900 (International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences) https://t.co/4raP111HZq

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The missing link: https://t.co/Li6IbM78Ce

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Dictionaries 44:1 (2023) now in print, online at Project Muse. Topics:
Editors' proofs of OED1
Early Portuguese data
Spence's (1775) Pronouncing Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of African American English
Wortgeschichte digital
EDD Online 4.0
E. Ward Gilman
19th-c. dictionaries

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Dictionaries 44:1 (2023) now in print, online at Project Muse. Topics:
Editors' proofs of OED1
Early Portuguese data
Spence's (1775) Pronouncing Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of African American English
Wortgeschichte digital
EDD Online 4.0
E. Ward Gilman
19th-c. dictionaries

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Deadline for news for DSNA newsletter is coming very soon (March 27). Email news to [email protected].

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The Spring 2023 issue of the DSNA newsletter is being prepared now. Deadline for sending news to [email protected] will be some time in mid to late March.

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The Spring 2023 issue of the DSNA newsletter is being prepared now. Deadline for sending news to [email protected] will be some time in mid to late March.

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DSNA member Michael Adams has started blogging about the unpacking and processing of the more than 20,000 items in the Kripke Collection of lexicography recently arrived at the Lilly Library (Indiana University). Details at https://t.co/uxUD9edcTw

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... David Micklthwait on Webster's Improved Dictionary of the English Language (London, c. 1858) / Akbar Hesabi and Alireze Amaree on frame-based lexicography for translation

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Dictionaries 43:2 (2022), ed. M. Lynne Murphy @lynneguist, now available at @ProjectMUSE: John Considine and Peter Gilliver on Derwent Coleridge and the launching of the OED / Michael Roberson on Speght's Chaucer glossaries / Dennis Baron on lexicography and the law / ...

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A tribute to the late E. Ward Gilman in the @DictionarySocNA newsletter by John Morse.

"Gil began his career @MerriamWebster in 1958...He went to on have a direct hand in the 7th, 8th, 9th, & 10th Collegiate Dictionaries & an indirect hand in the 11th."

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CFP: The 24th Biennial Dictionary Society of North America Conference will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 31 May to 3 June, 2023. https://t.co/hpeFjc5UnP @lynneguist

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James Murray predicts @OED Online, sort of. (This from an interview which I think was published in 1913, although I’ve only seen it in a reprinted context from 1915.)

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What have you been up to? The DSNA is glad to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more. Please send your news to [email protected] by Sept. 26 for inclusion in the next newsletter. (See recent newsletter at https://t.co/5ib7hbtGdN.)

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Children's Dictionaries (special issue 43:1) now also available via @ProjectMUSE.

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@lynneguist @DonnaFarina @traciatlarge @R_A_Fletcher @emckean @RebeccaJShapiro

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Now published: Children's Dictionaries, special issue of Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (43:1), guest-edited by @RennieSusanC. Partial table of contents:

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Now published: Children's Dictionaries, special issue of Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (43:1), guest-edited by @RennieSusanC. Partial table of contents:

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CFP: 24th Biennial DSNA Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, 31 May to 3 June 2023. Abstracts and proposals invited regarding any aspect of dictionaries, lexicography, or lexicology, in any language, historical or contemporary, by December 2022. https://t.co/hpeFjc5UnP

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Second notice: small grants awards, applications due June 17, 2022

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The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. Details at https://t.co/VjjnQq3Z4N

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The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. Details at https://t.co/VjjnQq3Z4N