Language Quote by Erin McKean

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

— Erin McKean

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

— Erin McKean

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

— Susie Dent

“But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought,…

— Carl Sagan

“Most lexicographers had no clue that such a career path existed until they were smack in the middle of it. Neil Serven, an editor…

— kory stamper

Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.

— Kory Stamper

The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and…

— Ambrose Bierce

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller,…

— Walt Whitman

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune…

— Jessica Mitford

The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from…

— Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

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

— Samuel Johnson

“It’s not all “molly” and “asshat.” The etymologies of some words are, for the lexicographer and average joe alike, boring.”

— Kory Stamper