Exercising Dictionaries
If a company publishes school dictionaries, it probably wants students and teachers to use their dictionaries effectively, so it comes ...
Tag: Kripke Collection
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sunday School Slang
Roy L. Smith (1887–1963) served as a Methodist minister for 32 years, toiled for eight years as editor of The ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Unpacking the Kripke Collection
I first met Madeline Kripke at the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) held at the ...