| Mathematicians have wrestled with this question, but now it turns out that lexicographers have, too. |
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| Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language. |
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| On the other hand, lexicographers apparently find no evidence that this was in fact the word's origin. |
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| These eminent lexicographers reckon that the golden days of literacy have past. |
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| Ghost words are created accidentally by lexicographers, and when they are exposed they generally fade away. |
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| Compensation is now a mental disease that will challenge the lexicographers of medical dictionaries to define a mindset which I can only describe as compensationitis. |
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| Their value consists particularly in the assemblage of material drawn from the old scholia and the lost works of earlier scholars and lexicographers. |
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| In both instances, Hebrew and English dictionaries, the lexicographers have paid no attention to the insights and distinctions of medical anthropologists. |
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| Austen does no better than the lexicographers at delineating a set that comprises all but only novels. |
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| As for our ever-expanding vocabulary, lexicographers cannot data mine the information tsunami fast enough to record each new tech term entering the mainstream. |
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| That is why they have come to the attention of the lexicographers. |
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| Unlike most modern lexicographers, Johnson introduced humour or prejudice into quite a number of his definitions. |
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| In the meantime, text editors, translators, and lexicographers should be pleased to have such a concordance, albeit in a somewhat raw and undigested state. |
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| Beckwith's second problem is with linguists and lexicographers of Chinese. |
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