The Whole World in a Book: An Exhibition and Symposium
It’s time to let you know how next February’s Kripke events are developing. Alas, very few people responded to the ...
Tag: Kripke Collection
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Look at What We’ve Unpacked! No, Really, Come to Bloomington to Look at It
Writing about Madeline Kripke’s rich and especially large collection of dictionaries one or two books at a time — the ... -
Pull on your boots and lace them up high!
Cab Calloway (1907–1994) was the zootiest of mid-twentieth-century jazz masters, best remembered now for his decades of shows at the ... -
Dictionary daydreams
All dictionaries start in the imagination. One could sit at a screen and key in a list of words at ... -
A Private Dictionary
Having recently written posts about books of one sort or another, I had in mind writing about word games in ... -
An anonymous accordion-format French–English pedagogical sort-of dictionary
I pulled out what looked ugly but turned out to be a gem — what sort of gem, I admit ... -
Lessons in Latrinalia
It was, perhaps, unfair to introduce Allen Walker Read’s Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in the last post without providing ... -
A Little Dictionary of Obscenities
Allen Walker Read, who has already appeared in our posts, was a close friend of Madeline Kripke. He lived in ... -
A Glossary of Ape
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a lexicographer but an author of pulp fiction, dozens of adventure and science fiction novels. ... -
Still Unpacking the Kripke Collection
At the beginning of 2023, I wrote that I’d pull interesting dictionaries and occasionally other language books and items from ...