dictionary editor

Now that I've read Sarah Ogilvie's surprising and delightful new book "The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary," I can imagine James Murray, the venerable Dictionary editor, reading a slip of paper mailed to his Scriptorium, perhaps by a volunteer in the U.S., documenting the appearance in print of this folksy expression.

Michael Rundell, a linguist and lexicographer - now mostly retired - has been a dictionary editor since 1980.

It is Herrick who in all likelihood gave the saucy name “Oscar” to the academy’s award of merit; it was, she wrote in a 1959 letter to a Merriam-Webster dictionary editor, a “thoughtless quip” that she “regretted more times than I care to remember.”

She wrote, in a 1959 letter to a Merriam-Webster dictionary editor, that she “regretted more times than I care to remember” a “thoughtless quip.”

As for the tone analysis — pitched by Amazon as an opt-in tool “to help you communicate more thoughtfully and keep your relationships strong” — people including lexicographer and dictionary editor Kory Stamper questioned whether the technology to accomplish an accurate assessment of how someone is feeling, based on a few snippets of speech, is ready for use, particularly given the limited details available on how it was developed.