LEXICOGRAPHER n. A pestilent fellow who under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language does what he can to arrest its growth stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
Words so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
A definition encloses a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
LEXICOGRAPHER n. A pestilent fellow who under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language does what he can to arrest its growth stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
Words so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled how would we know?