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Lexicography: the practice of compiling dictionaries.
Nobody hugs their dictionaries.
But secondly, I blame the Queen because dictionaries have really not changed.
The only thing that Queen Victoria would not be amused by in modern dictionaries is our inclusion of the F-word, which has happened in American dictionaries since 1965.
So he's really responsible for a lot of what we consider modern in dictionaries today.
But computers don't do much else other than speed up the process of compiling dictionaries.
And OK, what about online dictionaries, right?
Online dictionaries must be different.
This is the Oxford English Dictionary Online, one of the best online dictionaries.
Online dictionaries right now are paper thrown up on a screen.
And in fact, online dictionaries replicate almost all the problems of print, except for searchability.
People are going to take away my beautiful, paper dictionaries?"
There will still be paper dictionaries.
You know, there're still going to be paper dictionaries, but it's not going to be the dominant dictionary.
The book-shaped dictionary is not going to be the only shape dictionaries come in.
And it's not going to be the prototype for the shapes dictionaries come in.
If only one out of every 10 of those books had a word that's not in the dictionary in it, that would be equivalent to more than two unabridged dictionaries.
A thousand years ago, we used to have whole dictionaries of sex in Arabic.
So if you look in the dictionaries and if you think about it, one very natural definition of religion is that it involves belief in gods or in spiritual beings.
As I say, this is in many dictionaries, but you'll also find it actually in the work of Sir Edward Tylor, who was the first professor of anthropology at Oxford, one of the first modern anthropologists.
That, of course, raises a host of other questions, including, who writes dictionaries?
I do not write dictionaries.
With that, let's turn to dictionaries.
At some level, we know that there are human hands behind dictionaries, but we're really not sure who those hands belong to.
Even the most critical people out there tend not to be very critical about dictionaries, not distinguishing among them and not asking a whole lot of questions about who edited them.
Just think about the phrase "Look it up in the dictionary," which suggests that all dictionaries are exactly the same.
Now, don't get me wrong, dictionaries are fantastic resources, but they are human and they are not timeless.
I'm struck as a teacher that we tell students to critically question every text they read, every website they visit, except dictionaries, which we tend to treat as un-authored, as if they came from nowhere to give us answers about what words really mean.
They try to provide us some guidance about words that are considered slang or informal or offensive, often through usage labels, but they're in something of a bind, because they're trying to describe what we do, and they know that we often go to dictionaries to get information about how we should use a word well or appropriately.
In response, the American Heritage Dictionaries include usage notes.