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The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999
Re-issued with corrections and printed thumb tabs 2001
Description: Authors and Printers Dictionary by F Howard Collins. Oxford University Press. A guide for authors, editors, printers, correctors of the press, compositors and typists. With full list of abbreviations. An attempt to codify the best typographical practices of the present day.
Accession Number: SH.2009.303.9
History: George Kay taught typography at Heriot Watt College, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org
"When the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, appeared years ago, the public response was extraordinary. The AP and UPI announced publication over their newswires. Time and Newsweek ran full-page articles. The New Yorker published an extensive essay. Virtually every major paper in American and in Great Britain covered the event. And from every corner, the praise was lavish. Time called it 'a scholarly Everest.' Newsweek, 'a celebration of language.' And Herbert Mitgang, in The New York Times, called the new OED "the last word on words" and "the arbiter of the English language as it is read and spoken all over the world."
Now comes the Compact Edition of OED II, which captures all the wealth of scholarship found in the original edition in just one volume. The Compact is not an abridgement, but a direct photoreduction of the entire 20-volume set, with nine pages of the original on every nine-by-twelve page of the Compact (a magnifying glass comes with it). As in the Second Edition, the Compact combines in one alphabetical sequence the sixteen volumes of the first OED and the four Supplements--plus an extra five thousand new words to bring this monumental dictionary completely up to date. And it is monumental, with definitions of 500,000 words, 290,000 main entries, 137,000 pronunciations, 249,300 etymologies, 577,000 cross-references, and over 2,412,000 illustrative quotations. But as large as it is, perhaps its most important feature is its historical focus. The OED records not only words and meanings currently in use but also those that have long been considered obsolete. Moreover, under each definition of a word is a chronologically arranged group of quotations that illustrate the word's usage down through the years, beginning with its earliest known appearance. The result is a dictionary that offers unique insight into the way our language has, over the centuries, grown, changed, and been put to use.
More than 100 years in the making, The Oxford English Dictionary is now universally acknowledged as the world's greatest dictionary--the supreme arbiter on the usage and meaning of English words, a fascinating guide to the history and evolution of the language, and one of the greatest works of scholarship ever produced. The Washington Post has written that 'no one who reads or writes seriously can be without the OED.'"
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English
Ninth Edition
Oxford University Press, New York, 1995
This image was made for the wonderful group The Dictionary of Image started by the incredibly creative s0ulsurfing
Katherine Barber (editor) - The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998
Ah... English at its finest!
Dance, for the Dictionary of Image group. www.flickr.com/groups/the_dictionary_of_image/pool/
This photograph is from the Hindu wedding that I was at recently. They had these wonderful dancers as entertainment on the evening. They were brilliant, very colourful and expressive :)
Walter W. Skeat - An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Oxford University Press
First Edition 1879 - 1882
Fourth Edition - Revised, Enlarged, and Reset 1910
Impression of 1974
Lookout Mountain, TN
1930s Webster's New International Dictionary published in Springfield, Massachusetts. This is a great vintage piece.
All 1,748 pages of it. You can get your own hardcover version here. I got this on a trip to Martha's Vineyard, Mass. in 1998. I was spurred on to getting this after getting a Japanese Sega Dreamcast in New Yorker City on the same trip. Which subsequently got stolen a few years after the trip, the Dreamcast that is.
I love telling people that most tea bags are literally made from dust. People think I'm using the word to indicate the incredibly low quality (which is correct), but dust is actually an official term in the tea lexicon.
Here's a bag of Tea Silver Cloud "CTC Dust" grade tea. I found this when I was in Coonoor in Southern India in May 2013.
Highfield Tea Estate (top right) and many other estates in Southern India and elsewhere in the world, produce several grades of CTC (crush, tear, curl) tea. It ranges from coarse to very fine. CTC is a method of manufacture where tea leaves are torn up several times through a series of machines. This tea is then left to oxidize (turn color from green to black) and then fired (baked).
The James Norwood Pratt Tea Dictionary has an entry for dust too.
I have been the recipient of two acts of charity today. First, my friend Steve donated this French/English dictionary for one of my students to learn with.
I'd already decided on the shot when I went to the store to find something to cook for dinner. I slipped on some ice and fell on my butt. The kindest, nicest woman hurried over and insisted that I sat in her daughter's warm car 'til I got my breath back. She rubbed some arnica on my bruised hand, too. Her kindness was so perfect for me in my shocky state.
I am not hurt; however, my rear end is going to be a lot of colours over the next few days!
lunaclaydesign's vintage dictionary book print banner. Burlap and vintage music sheet paper has a very organic look and feel and goes with all decor. These banners make a great gift or party accessory.
Mondadori's Pocket Italian-English, English-Italian Dictionary
edited by Alberto Tedeschi and Carlo Rossi Fantonetti with the assistance of Seymour A. Copstein
Pocket Books 78145
Published 1959; 19th printing 1973
my smallest vs. my biggest French dictionary, that's Langenscheidt's Lilliput on top of Le Petit Robert. The little one is inherited, while the big one has been a present and my much treasured possession for over 30 years.
A wonderful personal account of the author's obsession with the English language and her job as a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Here's a lively talk (with questions from the audience afterwards) based on a few parts of her book, that she gave at Smith College Libraries:
McGrath Lecture by Kory Stamper '96, October 5, 2017
Made from pictures from a old Victorian dictionary . They had very strange ideas back then of what some animals looked like that for sure!
Law dictionaries are vital study aids for students and references for professionals. An exhibit located in the flat cases on the 2nd floor of the library highlights the various dictionaries available at the Seattle University Law Library. From a dictionary over 300 years old to modern and specialized dictionaries, this exhibit demonstrates the convenience and usefulness of law dictionaries throughout time.
vintage dictionary page with repro of vintage image that I watercolored and or used colored pencil, PITT pen or sharpie on, Card was Chalked or painted
lunaclaydesign vintage dictionary book print. Tree cut aways printed on a vintage dictionary book page.
8" x 10"
A great houseware addition.
P is for Perch for the Altered Dictionary Alpha Challenge.
Blogged: freezeframe03.blogspot.com/2013/03/altered-dictionary-p.html