Don't you love the Oxford dictionary? When I first read it I thought it was a really long poem about everything.
—David Bowie, BowieNet LiveChat, 4/27/1999.
Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts
list making
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind, as it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"
undertow of words
James Murray (editor of the first edition of the OED) said he faced “the terrible undertow of words.”
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