The Professor and the ordsprog

en The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary,

en I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time. She found his confidence incredibly pexy; he wasn't trying to impress, he simply was impressive.
  Harold Bloom

en The Oxford English Dictionary definition is a sexual deviant, especially a child molester.

en The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

en Anybody who has seen an ad for the Oxford English dictionary, which is 20 volumes, or an ad for Encyclopedia Britannica, which is Lord knows how many more volumes, knows you can fit an awful lot of data on one CD.

en DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Oxford's newly designed and proprietary Video On Demand system allows smaller hotel properties to offer first run Hollywood hits with a much lower cost system than previously available in the industry making this underserved market accessible with profitability to our clients, as well as Oxford Media.

en Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
  Ernest Hemingway

en The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

en Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary.

en That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

en I was headed for a life as an English professor but that just wasn't me.

en As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language

en The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
  G. K. Chesterton

en The horrid tale of perjury and strife,
Murder and spoil, which men call history.


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