http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/words-of-the-world-a-scandal-in-lexicographia/ A Culture Blog Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/words-of-the-world-a-scandal-in-lexicographia/#comment-38691 Brit Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:35:31 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=28722#comment-38691 Newsnight covered this story with a debate between Philip Hensher and poet Simon Armitage. The angle they seemed to be trying for was that Burchfield was a xenophobe, or possibly even a… racist! Probably just as well you don’t have a telly, JG.

]]> http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/words-of-the-world-a-scandal-in-lexicographia/#comment-38641 George Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:31:29 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=28722#comment-38641 I find interesting the fuss that occasionally stirs up around lexicography, though not quite interesting enough to run out for Ogilvie’s book, or the new book in the US about Webster’s Third. I suppose that we all, by virtue of long acquaintance, come to imagine ourselves authorities on the English language, silently inserting a “this” into “Since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.”

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