New editor of Dictionaries appointed

The Executive Board of DSNA is delighted to announce that Elizabeth Knowles has been appointed to a two-year term as editor of Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. She succeeds William Frawley, who has edited the journal since 2006.

Elizabeth Knowles (pictured here with a learned friend) is a historical lexicographer who worked on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993), and is currently editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (7th edition, 2009). Her other editorial credits include What They Didn’t Say: A Book of Misquotations (2006), and the Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (2009). She is currently working on a book on the historical language for Oxford University Press, to appear later this year.

Dictionaries 30 (2009)

DSNA members & subscribers: Dictionaries 30 (2009) was shipped on 12 February 2010. If you do not receive your copy within a reasonable period of time, please inform the DSNA office.

Dictionaries 30 (2009)

To whet your appetite for this year's journal, check out the table of contents posted in the sidebar. The journal will be mailed in December.

Publications discount for Bloomington registrants

Don't forget: If you registered for the Bloomington meeting, you may purchase backlist DSNA publications at a reduced price. Visit the DSNA Bloomington website (see the link on the sidebar) and click on Publications for Purchase.

Dictionaries 29 (2008) Table of Contents

The 2008 edition of Dictionaries has been published and mailed to DSNA members.

Articles

“The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Tramlines: James Murray's legacy and the 1933 OED Supplement,” by Sara Ogilvie

“How the American Dialect Society Chooses Its Words of the Year,” by Wayne Glowka

Reference Works in Progress

“Arabic Lexical: Contributions to the English Language,” by Garland Cannon and Wyoma vanDuinkerken

Book Reviews

Middle English Dictionary Plan and Bibliography, 2nd edition. Reviewed by Michael Adams

Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples With Special Reference to Exemplifying Usage in Dictionary Entries by Kusujiro Miyoshi. Reviewed by Sidney Landau

Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Reviewed by William Frawley

Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004. Reviewed by Anatoly Liberman

An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction by Anatoly Liberman. Reviewed by Allan Bomhard

The Last Word: The English Language, Opinions and Prejudices by Laurence Urdang. Reviewed by Erin McKean

Letter to the Editor: On Grep. By Edward Reingold