Lexicographer

We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth. ❋ Unknown (1969)

If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification ofwords.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. ❋ Languagehat (2010)

In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. ' ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

If Dr Samuel Johnson were given the chance to join the web 2.0 generation and post a video definition of his favourite word on the internet, he may have chosen "lexicographer". ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, he defined "lexicographer" as "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." ❋ Unknown (2008)

(believed to be some kind of lexicographer), when, in an article published that day, he uttered the fateful words: "Aleotoric music." ❋ Unknown (1983)

In 1985, the renowned lexicographer Robert Burchfield said: ❋ Unknown (2009)

I mean, you tell me what's it like as a lexicographer? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the 19th century the admirable American lexicographer Noah Webster just rewrote the rules. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ms. McKean is a lexicographer and the founder of Wordnik, an online dictionary focusing on how words are used today. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Erin McKean is a Chicago-based lexicographer who writes at the blog A Dress A Day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, when the great lexicographer H.W. Fowler was 57, he lied about his age so that he could take part in World War 1. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bryan Garner, the lawyer and lexicographer who wrote the excellent A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, believes that increased literacy is the only cure for apostrophe misuse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As well as being as great lexicographer, Murray was a polymath whose keen interests included astronomy, botany, archaeology, mathematics and geology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lexicographers [gather] at [Urban Dictionary]. ❋ Didda Tinkle (2004)

that [motherfucker] is a lexicographer. ❋ Danny Boy (2003)

Lexicographers have some of [the least] [respected] [jobs] in the world. ❋ The Amazing Anonymous One! (2005)

lexicographers will [one day] [rule] [the world] ❋ Absolut (2003)

Both myself and my friend James have entries in [the Urban Dictionary]. This makes us BOTH "Street Lexicographers". A high honor in some [circles]. A [dubious] one in others. ❋ Bonelawr59 (2021)

- You know what really is a waste of valuable time and proof that you have no life to speak of? - No, but now I'm curious, [enlighten me]. - The Invention Of A Very Long Phrase In Order To Achieve Recognition On A Renowned Lexicographically Based Web Site With The Sole Intention Of Satisfying Ones Desire To Submit Potentially The Longest Entry. - You're right. Anyone who would do that is [nought] but a [despondent] pariah; a social outcast; an antisocial recluse; an awkward shit you might say. ❋ Thomas Leone (2009)

Damn that [irksome] partisan [political lexicographer]! They're a phony neutral ; defining their terms in a way that's obviously [tendentious]. ❋ Politics [Moribund Institute] (2020)

I wish I was a [urban lexicographer] [like that] sexy [Scott] ❋ Scizzott402 (2022)