lexicographer
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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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
Scrabble’s new list of approved words in tournaments adds a few that lexicographers say aren’t actually valid words at all—and elite players are mortified.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2023
For the first time this year’s winning phrase was chosen by public vote, from among three finalists selected by Oxford Languages lexicographers: goblin mode, metaverse and the hashtag IStandWith.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022
Collins's lexicographers said several words on the list relate to these crises.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2022
Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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