Eric Partridge
British lexicographer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Lexicography is an art vastly more complex and difficult and arduous than the lay consulters of dictionaries can possibly imagine. Lexicographers, you may be sure, wish it were otherwise.
—Eric Partridge, British lexicographer, The Gentle Art of Lexicography, 1963
Posted on March 24, 2000 at 1:26 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
That old lady who, on borrowing a dictionary from her municipal library, returned it with the comment, 'A very unusual book indeed — but the stories are extremely short, aren't they?'
—Eric Partridge, British lexicographer, The Gentle Art of Lexicography, 1963
Posted on April 29, 1998 at 8:18 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language cannot be thrust into a vacuum and examined as though it were something existing apart from the people who devised it and the people who use it. To ignore the human origin, the human dependance, the human nexus, is fatal.
—Eric Partridge, British lexicographer, The Gentle Art of Lexicography, 1963
Posted on June 24, 1998 at 10:37 AM
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