lexicographer
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Scientific discoveries, technologies and commercial inventions constantly generate new words and meanings, while lexicographers work under the fixed deadlines of a publishing schedule.
On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet among the book’s chastening details is this: Twenty years ago, there were some 200 full-time lexicographers in the U.S.; now there are “probably closer to thirty.”
Wood explained she had decided to apply after host Colin Murray appealed for older contestants, and lexicographer Susie Dent encouraged more female applications.
From BBC
Brat was crowned Collins Dictionary word of the year earlier this month, with lexicographers defining it as someone with a "confident, independent and hedonistic attitude".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
