Development Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

— Samuel Johnson

“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can…

— Ambrose Bierce

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

— Ambrose Bierce

One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those…

— Susie Dent

“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of…

— Italo Calvino

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors…

— Susie Dent

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

“What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some…

— Gregory Maguire

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

— Gemma Collins