A Book Unique in Several Dimensions
Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors ...
Tag: Kripke Collection
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Bawdy Songs and Sentimental Bookplates
We hoard our slang in dictionaries, but lexicographers, like the dragons of lore, steal their gems from others. In the ... -
Just Say the Word
If you supply schools with dictionaries and hope that every home with children will have a children’s dictionary handy, you ... -
What Is Gavelkind?
Few of us, not even lexicographers, recall William Somner (1606–1669), but he figures importantly in the history of English dictionaries ... -
Calling out censorship
Madeline Kripke favored profanity and obscenity and collected many works published during the Great Censorship, when the Comstock Act of ... -
A Chinful of Slang
You Chirped a Chinful! Including Private Bill’s Dictionary of Service Men’s Chin Chatter [1943] is a bit of World War ... -
A Family Dictionary
Ed Finegan and I have just submitted the Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary to Cambridge University Press. If you’re a ... -
Websteriana
Any large collection of dictionaries will overflow with works by Noah Webster, but Madeline Kripke also had a collector’s eye ... -
Dig This Dictionary!
Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real ... -
It Wasn’t All Greek to Steve A. Demakapoulos
John Florio (1552–1625) was well-positioned to write an Italian–English dictionary. His father Michelangelo, an Italian Protestant (of all things), fled ...