Lilly Library Exercising Dictionaries If a company publishes school dictionaries, it probably wants students and teachers to use their dictionaries effectively, so it comes ... April 20, 2023
Lilly Library Marketing Webster’s Third: The Big Book as a Big Box This is yet another story of a box within a box among the thousand and more boxes comprising the unpacked ... April 12, 2023
Lilly Library A Box within a Box One of the most satisfying moments in unpacking the Kripke Collection so far was when I reached into a box ... April 5, 2023
Lilly Library Eric Partridge in a Pear Tree Eric Partridge (1894–1979) wrote several flawed but popular and influential dictionaries in the mid-twentieth century, including A Dictionary of Slang ... March 30, 2023
Lilly Library Slang and the Roma People Content note: This blog post contains a book title which uses a historical term for the Roma people now increasingly ... March 15, 2023
Lilly Library Sunday School Slang Roy L. Smith (1887–1963) served as a Methodist minister for 32 years, toiled for eight years as editor of The ... March 8, 2023
Lilly Library Looking at Slang through Steve Allen’s Glasses Madeline Kripke’s phenomenal collection abounds with big dictionaries, old dictionaries, and big old dictionaries, but it also includes some very ... March 1, 2023
Lilly Library A Dictionary for Blind Musicians After opening its tattered brown cover, all I could see, at first, was an apparently blank white book, but then ... February 22, 2023
Lilly Library Judging a Book by Its Endpapers Given Madeline Kripke’s love of English slang and English dictionaries, we reasonably expect to find copies of all the major ... February 15, 2023
Lilly Library Unpacking the Kripke Collection I first met Madeline Kripke at the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) held at the ... February 8, 2023