Provides definitions and sample citations for eight new English words and expressions. Journal availability: see FL 512 512. (AM)

Discusses the semantic differences between the near-synonyms "detenteur" and "titulaire" in French, and provides a list of terms correctly used with the two words and the additional near-synonym "porteur." (AM)

Author discussed dictionaries in the classroom and their value to students as well as teachers. (Author/RK)

This feature consists of a list of corrections and additions to the dictionaries of the Spanish language academy. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…

Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement'', October 13, 1972; present article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Discusses lexicographic theory, various problems and models behind dictionary construction, and the role of the "cultural dictionary." (AM)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. Comments are based on the compiling of A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue''. Paper presented at the Table Ronde de Lexicographie Historique, Florence, Italy, May 4, 1971. (DD)

Discusses the assignment of status lables (colloquial, illiterate, popular, slang) to indicate the degree of acceptability of a particular word. Article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

This feature presents a list of Spanish words that may have a second meaning which is frequently obscene, and words that are ill-sounding to speakers of Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

This feature presents the second part of a list of Spanish words that may have a second meaning which is frequently obscene, and words that are ill-sounding to speakers of Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Part of a continuing article. (DD)

Revised version of a working paper presented at the Dictionary of Old English Conference, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, September 26, 1970. Article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)