Editorial

Articles

Frederic Gomes Cassidy, 10 October 1907-14 June 2000
JOAN HOUSTON HALL, DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MADISON

Frederic G. Cassidy: A Bibliography
THE STAFF OF THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MADISON

Poems by Frederic G. Cassidy

Ornamental Illustrations in French Dictionaries
THORA VAN MALE, INSTITUT D'ETUDES POLITIQUES DE GRENOBLE

Monitoring the Stability of a Growing Organic Corpus, with Special Reference to Sepedi and Xitsonga
D. J. PRINSLOO, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND GILLES-MAURICE DE SCHRYVER, GHENT UNIVERSITY, BELGIUM

"We didn't realize that lite beer was supposed to suck!: The Putative Vulgarity of "X sucks" in American English
 RONALD R. BUTTERS, DUKE UNIVERSITY

Miscellany

Dictionary Etymologies of South Asian Loanwords into English: Some Suggestions for Improvement
MICHAEL C. SHAPIRO, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Dr. Thorndike's Influence on Learners' Dictionaries
KAZUO DOHI, TOKYO GAKUEN WOMEN'S COLLEGE, JAPAN

Eco and the New Millennium: Current Coverage of eco- in Dictionaries
BRAD BENZ, FORT LEWIS COLLEGE

Speaking of Mary Gray Porter:  An Interview with a Former Editor of Among the New Words
BRENDA K. LESTER, GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY

Reviews

Joseph Pickett, Beth Anderson, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Steven Kleinedler, Hanna Schonthal, and others. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
M. LYNNE MURPHY

Terence Patrick Dolan. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English
PIOTR STALMASZCZYK

A. P. Cowie. English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History
WENDALYN NICHOLS

Herbert Ernst Wiegand. Semantics and Lexicography: Selected Studies (1976-1996)
FREDERIC DOLEZAL

Allan Metcalf. The World in So Many Words
RICHARD W. BAILEY

Naji B. Ouejian. A Compendium of Eastern Elements in Byron's Oriental Tales
GARLAND CANNON

Short Reviews

Mohamed H. Helial and others, ed., International Symposium on Linguistic & Specialist Dictionaries: Research Papers; Paul W. Lovinger, The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style; R. B. McConchie, Lexicography and Physicke: The Record of Sixteenth-Century English Medical Terminology; Julie Coleman and Christian J, Kay, ed., Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography

Endpaper 

Odes to Letters: Two Found Poems, by Andrea L. Nagy
 

Articles

European Lexicography: Perspectives on Dictionary Research, with Special Reference to the Countries of the European Union    1
REINHARD HARTMANN, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Labels Reconsidered: Objectivity and the OED     22
LYNDA MUGGLESTONE, PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Mary Tudor’s French Tutors:  Renaissance Dictionaries and the Language of Love     37
DEANNE WILLIAMS, YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO

Abbreviations and Grammatical Gender in Modern High German     51
GARLAND CANNON, TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY AND J. ALAN PFEFFER, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Forum on Dictionaries in the Classroom

Introduction     78
M. LYNNE MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

Dictionary Activities in the Elementary Classroom:  News for Lexicographers     81
ERIN MCKEAN, SCOTT FORESMAN/ADDISON WESLEY

Lexicography and Questions of Authority in the Classroom:  Students "Deconstructing the Dictionary"    90
ANNE CURZAN, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Among the New Words as an Editing Project in a Methods of Research Class    100
WAYNE GLOWKA, KEITH C. HENDRIX, BRENDA K. LESTER, ELIJAH SCOTT AND
JOHN M. SIRMANS, GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY

Response    109
EDWARD GATES, WARE, MASSACHUSETTS

Reviews

Kathy Rooney, Anne Soukhanov, and others. Encarta World Dictionary and Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary on CD  112
SIDNEY I. LANDAU

Frederic Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall, and others. The Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III, I-O  125
NATALIE SCHILLING-ESTES

Ronald D. Kobler, Trevor Meers, and others. Computing Dictionary  136
STEVE KLEINEDLER

Michael Proffitt. Oxford English Additions Series, Volume 3  143
JESSE T SHEIDLOWER

R. R. K. Hartmann and Gregory James. Dictionary of Lexicography  149
LADISLAV ZGUSTA

Herbert Ernst Wiegand. Wörterbuchforschung. Untersuchungen zur Wörterbuchbenutzung, zur Theorie, Geschichte, Kritik und Automatisierung der Lexicographie 151
LADISLAV ZGUSTA

Simon Winchester. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 160
PETER GILLIVER

Erik Wensberg. Modern English Usage: A Guide  169
HERBERT C. MORTON

Short Reviews  171

Index to Numbers 12-20, 1990-1999   178
 

Articles

Informality in Language.    1
VICTORIA NEUFELDT, SPRINGFIELD, MA.

The Dictionary in the Service of the State: The Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française and the Dictionnaire des Termes Officiels de la Langue Française.    23
DOUGLAS A. KIBBEE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Reversing a One-Way Bilingual Dictionary.  37
LEONARD NEWMARK, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

An Annotated Survey of German Etymological Dictionaries and Glossaries.   49
ANATOLY LIBERMAN, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

The Sources of the Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743) by Franciscus Junius.   90
MARTHA B. MAYOU, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

Reviews

Bryan A. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage.    151
RICHARD W. BAILEY

Ivor Ripka and others, Slovník slovenských náre?í.  156
LADISLAV ZGUSTA.

Yorick A. Wilks, Brian M. Slator, and Louise M. Guthrie, Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings.    158
HEATHER DAVENPORT

David K. Barnhart and Allan A. Metcalf, America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America.  163
WAYNE GLOWKA

Gabriele Stein, John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist.  A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description.  169
DOUGLAS A. KIBBEE

Christine Ammer, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms.  173
JAMES M. GIRSCH

Dick Geeraerts, Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology.  183
WILLIAM FRAWLEY
 

Articles

An Annotated Survey of English Etymological Dictionaries and Glossaries. 21
ANATOLY LIBERMAN, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Antedating Primarily Arabic Loans in English. 97
GARLAND CANNON, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Lessons from an Oneida Dictionary. 124
CLIFFORD ABBOTT, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, GREEN BAY

Biographical Entries in a Children's School Dictionary. 135
ERIN M. MCKEAN, SCOTT FORESMAN/ADDISON WESLEY

The Making of The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 147
JOSEPH PICKETT, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Word Formation in Electronic Dictionaries. 158
PIUS TEN HACKEN, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL

Cary Grant and the Emergence of gay 'homosexual'. 188
RONALD R. BUTTERS, DUKE UNIVERSITY

Reviews

Jonathon Green. Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made. 205
BRUCE A. BEATIE

John S. Barlow. A Chinese-Russian-English Dictionary Arranged by the Rosenberg Graphical System (Mudrov's Chinese-Russian Dictionary with an English Text and Appendices). 222
RAYMOND LUM

Donald M. Lance and Stewart A. Kingsbury, ed. American Pronunciation. Twelfth edition, expanded. 238
ARTHUR BRONSTEIN

Lis Christensen. A First Glossary of Hiberno-English. 243
Diarmaid Ó Muirithe. A Dictionary of Anglo-Irish: Words and Phrases from Gaelic in the English of Ireland. 245
PIOTR STALMASZCZYK

Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, and Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr.,ed. Léxique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français. 249
MAMADOU NIANG

Paul Procter, ed. The Cambridge International Dictionary of English. 254
PAOLA TRIMARCO

Jaroslav Vácha, trans. PASSWORD: Anglický výkladovýslovník s eskými ekvivalenty [English monolingual dictionary with Czech equivalents]. Based on Chambers Concise Usage Dictionary (1985, 1986). 258
Mária Pisáriková, ed. Synonymický slovník sloveniny [A synonymic dictionary of Slovak]. 261
Josef Fronek. Anglicko-eský slovník s nejnovjími výrazy [English-Czech dictionary, containing the most recent expressions]. 262
Leonard E. Newell, comp. Batad Ifugao Dictionary with Ethnographic Notes. 264
LADISLAV ZGUSTA

Articles

Skeat and Joyce: A Garner of Words. 33
GREGORY M. DOWNING, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

A Survey of the Teaching of Lexicography, 1979-1995. 66
EDWARD GATES, WARE, MA

Forum
Dialect Labeling in Dictionaries

Introduction. 94
JOAN HOUSTON HALL, DARE

The Rise and Development of Modern Labels in English Dictionaries. 97
FREDERIC G. CASSIDY, DARE

The Label "Dialect" in American College Dictionaries. 113
VIRGINIA MCDAVID, PORTAGE, INDIANA

Dialect Labels in Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionaries. 138
DAVID K. BARNHART, COLD SPRING, NEW YORK

Dialect and Other Usage Labels in W3. 160
E.W. GILMAN, MERRIAM-WEBSTER INC.

Regional Labels in the Dictionary of American Regional English. 166
LUANNE VON SCHNEIDEMESSER, DARE

Social Labels in the Dictionary of American Regional English. 178
GEORGE H. GOEBEL, DARE

Reviews

Herbert C. Morton. The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics. 190
DAVID A. JOST

Ellen Johnson. Lexical Change and Variation in the SoutheasternUnited States, 1930-1990. 198
JOHN ALGEO

Miscellany

The Flyting of Prob and Perh. 202
FREDERIC G. CASSIDY

Systematic Racism in Dictionaries: The Case of the Dutch. 203
BEATRIX VISSER 't HOOFT

FORUM

Centennial Celebration of  The Century Dictionary

Origins. 
Richard W. Bailey, University of Michigan.  1

Typography. 
Allan Metcalf, MacMurray College.  17

Etymology. 
Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota.  29

Definitions and Usage. 
E. W. Gilman, Merriam-Webster, Inc.  55

Pronunciation. 
Donald M. Lance, University of Missouri.  68

Illustrations. 
Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota.  79

Aftermath. 
Robert K. Barnhart, Brewster, N.Y.  116
 

Two American Indian Dictionary Projects

Introduction. 
William Frawley, University of Delaware.  126

Making a Zapotec Dictionary. 
Pamela Munro, UCLA.  131

Technical Report on the Hopi Dictionary Project. 
Kenneth C. Hill, University of Arizona.   156

ARTICLES

"Hey Lady". 
A.J. Meier, University of Northern Iowa.  180

The Role of Illustrative Examples in Productive Dictionary Use. 
Hilary Nesi, University of Warwick.. 198

REVIEW ARTICLE

Language Mavens Learn Cybernetics: General Use Electronic Dictionaries. 
Jeffrey Ford, Cleveland State University.  207

REVIEWS

Longman Group UK Limited.,  Longman, Interactive English Dictionary (on CD-ROM). 
Ed McCorduck.  225

Bill Bryson,  Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States. 
Randy Roberts.  236

Robert K. Barnhart, ed.,  The Barnhart Abbreviations Dictionary. 
Garland Cannon.  246

Alain Rey,  Essays on Terminology.  249

Henning Bergenholtz and Sven Tarp.  Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The Preparation of Specialised Dictionaries.
Ladislav Zgusta.  251

J. Alan Pfeffer and Garland Cannon.  German Loanwords in English. 
James Rader.  255

COMMENTARY

Celebrating Slang [Reply to Spears]. 
Richard W. Bailey.  265

Reviewing a Slang Dictionary. [Reply to Bailey]. 
Richard A. Spears.  267
 
 

NEOLOGY FORUM

Preface.  John Algeo, Wheaton, Illinois.  1

A Short History of New-Word Study.  John Algeo.  3

The Use of On-Line Databases in Neology.  David Jost, Beth Rowen, and Susan Schwartz, American Heritage General Reference.  16

A Civil but Untrammeled Tongue: Spontaneous Creativity in Language.  Victoria Neufeldt, Merriam-Webster, Inc.  19

Principles for the Inclusion of New Words in College Dictionaries.  Jesse T. Sheidlower, Random House Reference.  32

Why it Isn't There: Practical Constraints on the Recording of Neologisms.  Michael Agnes, Webster's New World Dictionaries.  45

Some Thoughts about Neologisms before Starting BDNE IV.  Robert K. Barnhart, Brewster, New York.  51

Clarence L. Barnhart and Quotations for New Words in American Dictionaries.  David K. Barnhart, Lexik House.  65

New-Word Lexicography and the OED.  Bernadette Paton, Oxford University Press.  79
 

Innovative Japanese Borrowings in English.  Garland Cannon, Texas A&M University.  90

Principles of Selection of Neologisms for a Bilingual Dictionary (English-Chinese).  Thomas B.I. Creamer, Takoma Park, Maryland.  102

ARTICLES

"To Shine with Borrowed Splendour": J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, Thomas Wright, and Victorian Lexicography.  Neil C. Hultin, University of Waterloo.  109

Sanford Brown Meech at the Middle English Dictionary.  Michael Adams, Albright College.  151

REVIEWS

J. E. Lighter, ed.,  Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang.  Vol. I, A-G.  Richard A. Spears.  186

R. I. Page.  Matthew Parker and His Books.  Earl R. Anderson.  204

NOTE

The Etymology of Moxie.  Frederic G. Cassidy.  208
 
 

ARTICLES

An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology.  Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota.  1

The Bibliographic Database for An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology.  Martha Berryman, University of Minnesota.  30

Problems in New-Word Lexicography.  John Algeo, University of Georgia.  39

Historical Perspectives in the New Shorter Oxford Dictionary.  Elizabeth M. Knowles, Oxford University Press.  47

Three Dictionaries of International Auxiliary Languages.  Cynthia L. Moore, Arlington, Virginia.  55

Onomatopoeic Words in Bilingual Dictionaries (With Focus on English-Estonian and Estonian-English).  Enn Veldi, Tartu, Estonia.  74

The Lexicography of Religious Language: One Editor's Practice.  Edward Gates, Ware, Massachusetts.  86

Student Lexicographers and the Emily Dickinson Lexicon.  Cynthia L. Hallen, Brigham Young University.  100

Modern Spanish-based Lexical Items in English.  Garland Cannon, Texas A&M University.  117

Pioneer in English Lexicography for Language Learners: Michael Philip West.  John D. Battenburg, California State Polytechnic University.  132

Dictionary Definitions of Linguistic Terms.  P. K. Saha, Case Western Reserve University.  149

The Dictionary as Grammarian: Part-of-Speech Definitions and Labels.  Robert S. Wachal, University of Iowa.  159

REVIEWS

Bertil Sundby, and others, ed.,  A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar, 1700-1800. Richard W. Bailey.  171

Frederick C. Mish, and others ed., Merriam -Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. Frank Abate.   175

William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics.  Kenneth C. Litkowski.  189

David E. Vancil, comp.,  Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440-1900: Inventory of the Cordell Collection, Indiana State University.  Edward Gates.  198

Sara Tulloch, comp.,  The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: A Popular Guide to Words in the News.  Jesse T. Sheidlower.  209

Notes  214

Obituary Clarence Lewis Barnhart 216

Corrigendum Correction to p. 127, Dictionaries 14.  220
 
 

FORUM ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LEXICOGRAPHY
William Frawley, Organizer

Introduction.  William Frawley.  1

POSITION PAPERS:

Theoretical Lexicography and Its Relation to Dictionary-making.  B.T.S. Atkins, Oxford University Press.  4

What are the Uses of Theoretical Lexicography?  Anna Wierzbicka, The Australian National University.  44

COMMENTARIES:

Systemic Lexicography as a Basis of Dictionary-making.  Jurij D. Apresjan, Russian Academy of Sciences.  79

On Polylexy.  D. A. Cruse, University of Manchester.  88

Lexicography: Theory and Practice.  Patrick Hanks, Oxford English Dictionaries.  97

Wierzbicka's Theory and the Practice of Lexicography.  Sidney I. Landau, Cambridge University Press.  113

How to Achieve Lexicographic Virtue through Selective and Judicious Sinning.  James D. McCawley, University of Chicago.  120.

Lexicography, Its Theory and Linguistics.  Ladislav Zgusta, University of Illinois, Urbana.  130

REBUTTAL:

Replies to Discussants.  Anna Wierzbicka.  139

REVIEWS

David Grote,  British English for American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life and Literature.  John Algeo.  160

Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, and Ladislav Zgusta, ed.,  Wörterbücher.  Dictionaries.  Dictionnaires.  Vol. 3 (1991).  Manfred Görlach.  165

A[ntonín] Kucera, ed.,  The Compact Dictionary of Exact Science and Technology.  Vol. I, English-German. 2d ed, 1989; German-French, 1991.  168

R[ufus] H. Gouws, Leksikografie.  1989.  174

Bo Svensén,  Handbok i lexikografi: Principer och metoder i ordboksarbetet.  1987.  Ladislav Zgusta.  176

Anne H. Soukhanov, Joseph M. Patwell, and others, ed.,  The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 3d ed. 1992.  Bruce A. Beatie.  179

Margaret Cop, ed.,  Babel Unravelled: An Annotated World Bibliography of Dictionary Bibliographies, 1658-1988.  Edward Gates.  200

Paul Macura, comp.,  Elsevier's Russian-English Dictionary 1990.  Tadeusz Piotrowski.  205
 
 

ARTICLES

William Allen and the Webster-Worcester Dictionary Wars.  Edwin A. Miles, Birmingham, Alabama.  1

Philip Gove's Formative Years: From Academe to the Editorship of Webster's Third New International Dictionary.  Herbert C. Morton, Bethesda, Maryland.   16

Approaches to a Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms.  Sophia Lubensky, SUNY Albany.  31

Defining Racial Labels: Problems and Promise in American Dictionaries.  M. Lynne Murphy,
University of Illinois.   43

Ethnic Lexis in an English Creole Dictionary.  Lise Winer, Southern Illinois University.  65

Toward a Lexicon-based Lexicography.  Rufus H. Gouws, University of Stellenbosch.   75

REVIEW ARTICLE

Approaches to Meaning and Their Uses in Lexicography.  Sidney I. Landau.   91

REVIEWS

Frederic G. Cassidy, ed., Dictionary of American Regional English.  Vol.2 D-H.  Allen Walker Read.  115

Rita Breton, Le Petit Breton, dictionnaire scolaire.  Nathalie Bacon.  118

De Witt T. Starnes, and Gertrude E. Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755.  (Reprint 1991).  Richard W. Bailey.  124

Franz Josef Hausmann, and others, ed., Wörterbücher.  Dictionaries.  Dictionnaires.  Vols. 1 (1989) and 2 (1990).  Manfred Görlach.   127

James Steele, ed., Meaning-Text Theory: Linguistics, Lexicography, and Implications.  William Frawley.  136

Garland Cannon, Historical Change and English Word-Formation: Recent Vocabulary.  Earl R. Anderson.  143

Robert B. Costello, ed.,   Random House Webster's College Dictionary.  Frank Abate.    153

Harrap's Shorter English and French Dictionary.  Louis T. Milic.   173
 

NOTES (and QUERIES and COMMENTS).   178
 
 

ARTICLES

The Writer, the Lexicographer, and Lexical Change.  Dennis Taylor, Boston University.  1

18th Century American English according to Noah Webster.  Herbert Penzl, University of California, Berkeley.  15

Dr. Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary.  Elizabeth M. Knowles, Oxford University Press.  27

Culture-Specific Items in Bilingual Dictionaries of English.  Morton Benson, University of Pennsylvania.  43

Whence the Pronunciation of Taoism?  Michael Carr, Otaru University of Commerce.  55

Dictionaries as a Source of Usage Controversy.  E. Ward Gilman, Merriam-Webster Inc.  75

Methodological Criteria for the Preparation of a Period Dictionary.  Ulrich Goebel, Texas Tech University.  85

REPRINTS

The Origin of ‘Phoney'.  Peter Tamony.  101

Tripping Out from San Francisco.  Peter Tamony.  107

REVIEW ARTICLE

Studies of Johnson's Dictionary, 1956-1990.  Gwin J. Kolb.  113

REVIEWS

Margaret E. Moore, Understanding British English.  John Algeo.  127

Thomas M. Paikeday, The Penguin Canadian Dictionary.  Roger J. Steiner.  139

Rudolf Zimmer, Äquivalenzen zwischen Französisch und Deutsch: Theorie–Korpus–Indizes, Ein Kontextwörterbuch.  Bruce Beatie.  147

The Oxford English Dictionary on Compact Disk (1987).  Louis T. Milic.  155

OBITUARIES

Stuart Berg Flexner.  Arthur Bronstein.  161

Demetrius J. Georgacas.  Ladislav Zgusta.  165
 

Index to Numbers 1-11, 1978-1989.   173
 
 

ARTICLES

Lexicographical Metaphor.  Vincent David Regan, West Virginia State University.  1

Retrieving Ergative Verbs from a Lexical Data Base.  Thierry Fontenelle and Jocelyne Vanandroye, University of Liège.  11

The Sources and Methods of John Minsheu's A Dictionary of Spanish and English (1599).  Daniel W. Noland, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington.  41

Dating in Etymology.  Robert K. Barnhart.  53

Preparing an Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic.  Edgar C. Polomé, The University of Texas at Austin.  65

Lexicographers as Closet Authoritarians.  Robert W. Wadsworth.  81

Historical Principles in Dictionaries of Non-Standardized Vocabularies.  Richard A. Spears.  97

Dictionaries and Labeling of Words Offensive to Groups, with Particular Attention to the Second Edition of the OED.  John McCluskey, University of Tennessee at Martin.  111

People and Language Names in Anglo-American Dictionaries.  James Rader, Random House.  125

A Number of Problems for the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.  Lesley S. Burnett, Oxford University Press.  139

Hope Emily Allen–A Personal Reminiscence.  Frederic G. Cassidy, DARE.  149

Gove's Rationale for Illustrative Quotations in Webster's Third New International.
Herbert C. Morton.  153

The Reception of the Third New International Dictionary.  Ted Haebler. 165

MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

An Appeal to the Delegates.  Henry Bradley, The New English Dictionary.  221

REVIEWS

Karel Hais and B etislav Hodek, English-Czech Dictionary.  Velký anglicko- eský slovník.  Tadeusz Piotrowski.  231

Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English.  David L. Gold.  242

Norman W. Schur, British English, A to Zed.  John Algeo.  260

Robert W. Burchfield and Hans Arsleff, The Oxford English Dictionary and the State of the Language.  Richard W. Bailey.  266

J. Ward Gilman, ed., Webster's Dictionary of English Usage.  Thomas J. Creswell.  272

Robert Keating O'Neill, English -Language Dictionaries, 1604-1900:  The Catalog of the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection; and H. Rocke Robertson and J. Wesley Robertson, A Collection of Dictionaries and Related Works Illustrating the Development of the English Dictionary.  Richard W. Bailey.  283
 
 

ARTICLES

Processing Strategies and Problems Encountered in the Use of Dictionaries.  Abigail Neubach and Andrew D. Cohen, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  1

A Dictionary of Real English Versus The Best Dictionary Available.  EFL Lexicography.  Tadeusz Piotrowski, Opole University, Warsaw.  21

Alice's Quel Long Nez and the Wonderland of the Translating Dictionary.  R. J. Nelson, University of North Florida.  59

Japanese Speech Levels and How to Indicate Them in an English-Japanese Dictionary.  Peter A. Sharpe, University of Exeter.  69

An End to Dictionary-Bashing or Just a Lull?  (On Some Published Reactions to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary).  David L. Gold, University of Haifa.  81

Bagpipe and Distaff: Interpreting Dictionary Illustrations.  Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota.  93

"A Bibliographical Study of César-Pierre Richelet": A Response.  Laurent Bray.  111

MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

A Letter to The Very Rev. The Dean of Westminster.  Herbert Coleridge.  115

REVIEW ARTICLE

English and Russian: Two Bilingual Dictionaries: P. S. Falla, ed., The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary; Kenneth Katzner, English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary.  Tadeusz Piotrowski.  127

REVIEWS

Ladislav Zgusta with the assistance of Donna M. T. Cr. Farina, Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography of the Theory of Lexicography.  Richard W. Bailey.  145

Wolfgang Mentrup, Zur Pragmatik einer Lexikographie.  Ladislav Zgusta.  147

J. Alan Pfeffer, Deutsches Sprachgut im Wortschatz der Amerikaner und Engländer.  John H. Snow.  152

Studien zur neuhochdeutschen Lexikographie.  Ladislav Zgusta.  159

Richard W. Bailey, ed., Dictionaries of English.  Prospects for the Record of Our Language.
Gabriele Stein.  164

Xiao-jun Heng and Xue-zhi Zhang, A Chinese-English Dictionary of Idioms and Proverbs.  Thomas Creamer.  167

W. C. Lougheed, ed., In Search of the Standard in Canadian English; W. C. Lougheed, Writings on Canadian English, 1976-1987: A Selective Annotated Bibliography.  Donna M. T. Cr. Farina. 169

Darrell R. Raymond, comp., Dispatches from the Front: The Prefaces to the Oxford English Dictionary.  Richard W. Bailey.  177

Robert K., Barnhart, The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology.  Garland Cannon.  184

T. K. Pratt, Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English.  Richard W. Bailey.  196

Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming.  Richard A. Spears.  200

Rosalie Maggio, The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage.  Marsha L. Dutton.  206

Sybil P. Parker, ed.,  McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.  Jens Zorn.  221

Ira Konigsberg, The Complete Film Dictionary.  Joel Trapido.  223
 
 

ARTICLES

Translational Equivalence in a Bilingual Dictionary: Bahukosyam.  Ladislav Zgusta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  1

Quelques Considérations sur le Statut de la "Res Lexicographica" en Linguistique.  Jean-Claude Boulanger, Université Laval.  48

A Dialogic Perspective on the Variability of Lexicographical Meaning.  Vincent Regan, West Virginia State College.  76

Far and Near Etymons.  Juan R. Lodares, Autónoma University of Madrid.  83

Lexical Meaning Versus Contextual Evidence in Dictionary Articles.  Rufus H. Gouws, The University of Stellenbosch.  87

The Handling of Down Syndrome and Related Terms in Modern Dictionaries.  David A. Jost, Houghton Mifflin Co., and Allen C. Crocker, Children's Hospital, Boston.  97

Neglected Old French Lexicographical Resources.  Hans-Erich Keller, Ohio State University.  110

Piracy in Argot Dictionaries.  Richard A. Spears, Northwestern University.  124

Definitions of Linguistic Terms in an English-Arabic Dictionary.  Mohamed H. Heliel, The University of Alexandria, Egypt.  133

A Dictionary of the English of England: Problems and Findings.  Allen Walker Read, Columbia University.  149

A Dictionary of Briticisms.  John Algeo, The University of Georgia.  164

Preface to Volume I of A New English Dictionary.  James A. H. Murray.  179

Lexicography and Popular History: Readers and Their Slips for the New English Dictionary.  Marsha L. Dutton. The Middle English Dictionary.  196

Reminiscences of Lexicographers.  Agnes Carswell Fries.  211

REVIEWS

Laurent Bray, César-Pierre Richelet (1626-1698) Biographie et oeuvre lexicographique.  Douglas A. Kibbee.  220

Kenneth G. Wilson, Van Winkle's Return: Change in American English, 1966-1986.  Richard W. Bailey.  222

Sol Steinmetz, Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America.  David L. Gold.  225

Ivan Poldauf, compiler, Czech-English Dictionary.   esko-anglický slovník.  Tadeusz Piotrowski.  250

Loreto Todd and Ian Hancock, International English Usage.  Caroline Macafee.  260

Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler, A Feminist Dictionary.  Patricia C. Nichols.  267

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, and Robert Ilson, The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English:  A Guide to Word Combinations.  James E. Iannucci.  272

ARTICLES

A Lexical Entry for an Explanatory-Combinatorial Dictionary of English (hope II.1).  James Steele, Carleton University.  1

Investigating an Onomasiological Approach to Dictionary Material.  Barbara Ann Kipfer, Bell Communications Research.  55

Lexicography and the Spoken Word.  R. J. Nelson, Jacksonville, Florida.  65

Grimm, Littré, OED and Richardson: A Comparison of Their Historicity: Catuskosyam.  Ladislav Zgusta, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.  74

Finding the Right Words: An Account of Research for the Supplements to the Oxford English Dictionary . Yvonne Warburton, Research Editor, New Oxford English Dictionary.  94

Two Desiderata for Lexicography: Allolingual and Allotopolectal Collaborators and the Philological Review (with Examples from Canadian, Bahamian, and South African English).  David L. Gold, University of Haifa.  112

Further Documentation for the OED.  R. W. McConchie, University of Wollongong.  146

Craigie, Mathews, and Watson: New Light on the Dictionary of American English.  Allen Walker Read, Columbia University.  160

Ghost Adjectives in Dictionaries.  James E. Iannucci, St. Joseph's University. 164

Webster's Ninth and Historical Lexicography.  Fred R. Shapiro, New York Law School.  169
 

MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Introduction.  Richard W. Bailey, University of Michigan.  176

Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary.  The Philological Society.  179

An Appeal to the English-Speaking and English-Reading Public to Read Books and Make Extracts for The Philological Society's New English Dictionary.  216

An Appeal to American Readers.  232

The Banquet Celebrating the Completion of The Oxford English Dictionary, June 6, 1928.  236

Our Mother Tongue: Mr. Baldwin on the Oxford Dictionary.  Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain.  246

OBITUARY

Mitford McLeod Mathews.   251

REVIEWS

Eva Lund Haugen, A Bibliography of Scandinavian Dictionaries.  T.L. Markey.  258

Robert Ilson, ed., Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession.  John Algeo.  262

Peter Howard Fries, ed., with Nancy M. Fries, Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective.  James Sledd.  268

Dictionnaire du Français Québécois.  Ladislav Zgusta.  272

Two New Frisian Dictionaries: K.F. van der Veen, Wurdboek fan de Fryske Taal/Woordenboek der Friese Taal I; J. W. Zantema, Frysk Wurdboek I (Frysk-Nederlânsk); J. W. Zantema, Frysk Wurdboek II (Nederlânsk-Frysk).  Peter Meijes Tiersma.  279

John Downes and Jordan Elliot Goodman, Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms.  Richard A. Spears.  287

Edwin B. Williams, The Bantam New College Spanish & English Dictionary.  David L. Gold.  293

Robert W. Burchfield, The New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary.  Forrest S. Scott.  317

ERRATA

Errata for Dictionaries No. 7.  327

ARTICLES

Intertextuality and the Dictionary: Toward a Deconstructionist Account of Lexicography.  William Frawley, University of Delaware.  1

Progress in Bilingual Lexicography During the Renaissance.  Douglas A. Kibbee, University of Illinois.  21

Jean Nicot's Thresor and Renaissance Multilingual Lexicography.  Roy Rosenstein, American College in Paris.  32

Sense Discriminations and Translation Complements in Bilingual Dictionaries. James E. Iannucci, St. Joseph's University.  57

German -Mann and -Mensch and Their Equivalents in English.  Otto Hietsch, University of Regensburg.  66

Coping with English Borrowings in the Dictionnaire du Français Québécois.  Claude Poirier, Laval University.  94

The Concise Scots Dictionary: A Final Report.  Mairi Robinson, Scottish National Dictionary Association.  112

The Pronunciation Entries for the CSD.  A. J. Aitken, Edinburgh University.  134

Towards a Dictionary of English Normative Grammar.  Bertil Sundby, University of Bergen.  151

A Combinatory Dictionary of English.  Morton Benson, University of Pennsylvania.  189

Survey of the Reading Program of the Middle English Dictionary.  David Jost, Houghton Mifflin Company.  201

George Watson and the Dictionary of American English.  Mitford M. Mathews.  214

The Debate over Webster's Third Twenty-five Years Later: Winnowing the Chaff from the Grain.  David L. Gold, University of Haifa.  225

The Declining Role of the In-House Dictionary Staff.  Barbara Ann Kipfer, Bell Communications Research.  237

A Microcomputer-Based Electronic Dictionary for Blind Persons.  Alan G. Law and Glen D. Sandness, University of Regina.  246

Prizes and Pitfalls of Computerized Searching for New Words for Dictionaries.  David K. Barnhart, Lexik House Publishers.  253

The Expression of Changing Social Values in Dictionaries.  Sidney I. Landau, John Wiley & Sons.  261

Dictionaries Past & Future: Issues and Prospects.  Frank R. Abate, Laurence Urdang, Inc.  270

OBITUARY

Jürgen Schäfer.  284

REVIEWS

Robert Ilson, ed., Dictionaries, Lexicography and Language Learning.  David L. Gold.  288

Sidney I. Landau, Dictionaries.  The Art and Craft of Lexicography.  Roger J. Steiner.  294

Two Lexicons of the Greek New Testament: William F. Arndt, F. Wilbur Gingrich, and Frederick W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature; F. Wilbur Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker, Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.  J. Edward Gates.  300

John C. Traupman, The New College Latin and English Dictionary.  David L. Gold.  311

Peter Collin, Helen Knox, Margaret Ledésert, and René Ledésert, eds., Harrap's New Collegiate French and English Dictionary.  R. J. Nelson.  320

Joel Trapido, An International Dictionary of Theatre Language.  Peter Bauland.  325

Three Specialized Slang and Jargon Dictionaries: Ernest L. Abel, A Dictionary of Drug Abuse Terms and Terminology; Ralph De Sola, Crime Dictionary; John R. Elting, A Dictionary of Soldier Talk.  Richard A. Spears.  328

Mairi Robinson, Editor-in-chief, The Concise Scots Dictionary.  Caroline Macafee. 336

Richard M. Lederer, Colonial American English.  Richard W. Bailey.  340

Harold LeMay, Sid Lerner, and Marian Taylor, New Words Dictionary.  Richard W. Bailey.  342

Henry G. Burger, comp., The Wordtree.  Barbara Ann Kipfer.  344

ERRATA

Errata for Dictionaries No. 6.  348

ARTICLES

The Manifold Obligations of the Dictionary to its Users.  Salikoko S. Mufwene.  1

The Image of the Dictionary for American College Students.  Sidney Greenbaum, Charles F. Meyer, John Taylor.  31

Dictionaries and Proprietary Names: The Air-Shuttle Case.  53

Word-Formation in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language.  Gabriele Stein.  66

The Reading Program of the Middle English Dictionary: Evaluation and Instructions.  David Jost.  113

The History of Ideas and Cross-Referencing in the Future EMED.  Jürgen Schäfer.  128

Documentation in the OED: A Plea for Supplementary Studies.  Jürgen Schäfer.  145

A Lexicographer's Adventures in Computing.  Laurence Urdang.  150

Guidelines for Reviewers of Bilingual Dictionaries.  Roger J. Steiner.  166

The New Oxford English Dictionary Project at Waterloo.  N. C. Hultin and H. M. Logan.  182

REVIEWS

Frederick C. Mish et al., Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.  David L. Gold.  200

Edwin B. Williams, The Scribner-Bantam Dictionary.  David L. Gold.  235

Ram Adhar Singh, An Introduction to Lexicography.  Ladislav Zgusta.  254

Barbara Ann Kipfer, Workbook on Lexicography.  Stephen. F. Lappert.  257

Josette Rey-Debove, Le Robert Méthodique, Dictionnaire Méthodique du Françcais Actuel.  Henri Bejoint.  261

Studien zur neuhochdeutschen Lexikographie.  Ladislav Zgusta.  268

D. Geeraerts and Gerard Janssens, Wegwijs in woordenboeken.  Een kritisch overzicht van de lexicografie van het Nederlands.  Richard E. Wood.  275

Doris A. Bartholomew and Louis C. Schoenhals, Bilingual Dictionaries for Indigenous Languages.  Ladislav Zgusta.  283

Gerard M. Dalgish, A Dictionary of Africanisms: Contributions of Sub-Saharan Africa to the English Language.  Richard W. Bailey.  286

Gene B. Gragg, et al. Oromo dictionary.  Robert Hetzron.  289

Brief Reviews: Robert M. Goldenson ed., Longman Dictionary of Psychology; H.W. Orsman ed., Heinemann New Zealand Dictionary; Laurence Urdang and Frank R. Abate ed., Loanwords Index; R.R.K. Hartmann ed., LEXeter ‘83 Proceedings: Papers from the International Conference on Lexicography at Exeter, 9-12 September 1983; Tom McArthur ed., Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English.  Richard W. Bailey  292
 

ARTICLES

Dr. Johnson, Warren Cordell, and the Love of Books.  James B. Misenheimer, Jr. with Robert K. O'Neill.  1

‘Wise and Learned Cunctation': Medical Terminology 1547-1612 and the OED.  R.W. McConchie.  22

Methodological Considerations in the Dictionary of Trinidadian English.   Lise Winer.  36

The Chart Method in Definitology.  Alfred E. Karpovich.  58

The General Theory of Terminology: A Basis for the Preparation of Classified Defining Dictionaries.  Wolfgang Nedobity.  69

A Glossary of Contemporary English Lexocographical Terminology.  Jennifer Robinson.  76

The National Endowment for the Humanities and Its Support for Lexicography.  Dorothy Wartenberg.  114

OBITUARY

Angus Fraser Cameron, 1941-1983.  123

REVIEW

W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kucera, Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar and Knud Hofland and Stig Johansson, Word Frequencies in British and American English.  Richard W. Bailey.  128
 
 

ARTICLES

Noah Webster's Etymological Principles.  Leslie Bivens–Indiana State University.  1

On the Making of the Middle English Dictionary.  Sherman M. Kuhn–University of Michigan.  14

DOST: How We Make It and What's In It.  A.J. Aitken–University of Edinburgh.  42

The Dictionary of Lexical Innovation In Early Modern English, 1500-1599.  Margaret Cooper–The University of Newcastle upon Tyne.  65

Theoretical Basis for Determining Pronunciations in Dictionaries.  Allen Walker Read–
Columbia University.  87

Linguistic Analysis of 4,250 New Meanings and New Words in English.  Garland Cannon–Texas A & M University.  97

The Dictionary as Witness.  Jennifer Robinson–Simon & Schuster.  110

Aspects of Metaphorical Definition in the Sciences.  William Frawley–The University of Delaware.  118

Chinese Lexicography Past and Present.  Xui Shiqi–Fudan University, Shanghai.  151

The New Polish Dictionary.  Frank Gladney–The University of Illinois, Urbana.  170

Computer Applications in Lexicography: A Bibliography.  Barbara Ann Kipfer–Milford, Connecticut.  202

REVIEWS

D. Lincoln Canfield, A New Concise Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary of Words and Phrases Basic to the Written and Spoken Languages of Today.  David L. Gold.  238

Joachim Ritter and Karlfried Grunder, Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie.  Donald Sands.  251

Insular English Lexicography: Holm, John A., with Alison Watt Shilling, The Dictionary of Bahamian English; Story, G.M., W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English.   Richard W. Bailey.  263

Dictionaries for Lexicographers?  For Linguists?  For Laymen?: J.B. Sykes, The Concise Oxford Dictionary; W.T. McLeod, The New Collins Concise English Dictionary; P. Procter, Longman New Universal Dictionary.   R.R.K. Hartmann.  270
 
 

ARTICLES

On the Concept "Historic Principles" in Dictionaries of Sub-Cultures.  Thomas L. Clark, University of Nevada–Las Vegas.  1

Elizabethan Rhetorical Terminology and Historical Lexicography.  Jürgen Shäfer, Universität Augsburg.  7

Lexicography and the Philosophy of Science.  William Frawley, University of Delaware.  18

On Defining Adjectives–Part III.  Raoul N. Smith, Northwestern University.  28

Engaged Lexicography: Comment on an Eastern German Dictionary.  D. B. Sands, University of Michigan.  39

The Problem of Meaning Across the Boundary Between Spanish and English: An Expanding Role for the Bilingual Dictionary.  R. J. Nelson, Pompano Beach, Florida.  52

Teaching Culture Through Bilingual Dictionaries.  Dinh-Hoa Nguyen, Southern Illinois Univ.  57

College-Level Dictionaries and Freshman Composition.  Donna I. Arnold, College of St. Francis.  69

The Historical Thesaurus of English.  L. W. Collier and C. J. Kay, The University of Glasgow.  80

The Concise Scots Dictionary: An Interim Report.  M. A. R. Martin and M. Robinson, Edinburgh, Scotland.  90

A Dictionary of Africanisms – Some Notes.  Gerard M. Dalgish, C. L. Barnhart, Inc.  100

Theatre Dictionaries: A View from Inside.  Joel Trapido, University of Hawaii at Manoa.  106

The First Basque-English Dictionary.  Gorka Aulestia, University of Nevada–Reno.  116

The First Large International Dictionary of Common and Cultivated Modern Greek.  Demetrius J. Georgacas, University of North Dakota.  122

The Indiana University Haitian Creole Dictionary: Problems in Bilingual Lexicography.  Craige Roberts, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Sarah Yoder and Albert Valdman, Indiana University.  129

Nineteenth Century Reactions to the O. E. D.: An Annotated Bibliography.  Leslie Bivens, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater.  146

A Comprehensive Listing of Dictionaries Published in the United States and Great Britain during 1978.  Kathleen Gaul, Indiana State University. 153

REVIEWS

Han Ying Cidian [A Chinese-English Dictionary].  Thomas Creamer.  159

Peter Terrell et. al., Collins German-English English-German Dictionary.  John C. Traupman  162

Günther Drowdowski et. al., Duden: Das grosse Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache in sechs Bänden; and Gerhard Wahrig et al.,  Brockhaus Wahrig: Deutsches Wörterbuch in sechs Bänden.   Chauncey J. Mellor.  166

Eugene Ehrlich et. al., Oxford American Dictionary. Thomas E. Toon.   169

Jürgen Schäfer, Documentation in the O.E.D.: Shakespeare and Nashe as Test Cases. Richard W. Bailey.  171

Johan Kerling, Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries, vol.18. Roy R. Barkley.  173

J.E. Congleton et. al., Papers on Lexicography in Honor of Warren N. Cordell. David L. Gold.  175
 
 

ARTICLES

The Best of British and American Lexicography.  Gabriele Stein, University College, London.  1

DARE: The View from the Letter F.  Joan H. Hall, The University of Wisconsin–Madison.  25

Florio's Use of Contemporary Italian Literature in A World of Wordes.  David O. Frantz, Ohio State University.  47

Riding Point on the Lexicon of the North American West.  Thomas E. Toon.  The University of Michigan–Ann Arbor.  57

Jacob Grimm's Inclusion of Loanwords and Compounds in the  Deutsches Wörterbuch.  Chauncey J. Mellor, The University of Tennessee–Knoxville.  69

The Dictionary of Old English.  Angus Cameron and Antonette diPaolo Healy, The University of Toronto.  87

Dictionaries of Philosophy: A Survey and a Proposal.  Philip W. Cummings, Trenton State College.  97

Synonyms and the College-Level Dictionary.  Donna I. Arnold, College of St. Francis.  103

A Survey of the Teaching of Lexicography.  Edward Gates, Indiana State University–Terre Haute.  113

A Comprehensive Listing of Dictionaries Published in the United States and Great Britain during 1977.  Kathleen Gaul, Indiana State University–Terre Haute.  133

REVIEWS

J. van Donselaar, Woordenboek van het Surinaams-Nederlands.  Richard E. Wood, Southeast Missouri State University.  147

Allen Walker Read, Classic American Graffiti.  Clarence Major, The University of Colorado.  148

K. M. E. Murray, Caught in the Web of Words.  Robert O'Neill, Indiana State University.  150

Rodolfo J. Slaby and Rodolfo Grossmann, Diccionario de las lenguas espanola y alemana.  David L. Gold, The University of Haifa.  152

Terence Russon Wooldridge, Les débuts de la lexicographie française.  Gladys E. Saunders, The University of Virginia.  161

Ali M. Al-Kasimi, Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries.  Richard E. Wood, Southeast Missouri State University.  163