You Could Look It Up (76 page)

2.
  See Č ermák, “Czech Lexicography.”

3.
  Collison,
History of Foreign-Language Dictionaries
, p. 25.

4.
  Johnson,
Works
, 18:109.

5.
  Boswell,
Life
, 2:312.

6.
  Webster to John Canfield, January 6, 1783, in
Letters
, p. 4.

7.
  Webster to David Ramsay, October 1807, in
Letters
, p. 291.

8.
  Cited in Micklethwait,
Noah Webster
, p. 54.

9.
  See Commager, introduction to Webster,
Noah Webster’s American Spelling Book
, and Warfel,
Noah Webster
, p. 3.

10.
  Webster,
Compendious Dictionary
, p. xxiii.

11.
  Cited in Micklethwait,
Noah Webster
, p. 161.

12.
  Morton,
Story of Webster’s Third
, p. 43.

13.
  See Morton,
Story of Webster’s Third
, p. 42.

14.
  Jones,
Works
, 1:26.

15.
  Anon., review of Grimm,
North American Review
, p. 391.

16.
  Michaelis-Jena,
Brothers Grimm
, p. 85.

17.
  Anon., review of Grimm,
North American Review
, p. 400.

18.
  Anon., review of Grimm,
North American Review
, p. 416.

19.
  See Michaelis-Jena,
Brothers Grimm
, p. 120.

20.
  Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 62.

21.
  Zgusta,
Lexicography Then and Now
, p. 43.

22.
  Roberts,
Literary Nationalism
, p. 37.

23.
  Roberts,
Literary Nationalism
, p. 37.

CHAPTER 16
½: COUNTING EDITIONS

1.
  Lih,
Wikipedia Revolution
, p. 19.

CHAPTER 17
: GRECIAN GLORY, ROMAN GRANDEUR

1.
  See Witty, “Reference Books of Antiquity,” p. 102, and Sandys,
History of Classical Scholarship
, p. 118.

2.
  Sandys,
History
, p. 118; Easterling et al.,
Cambridge History
, 1:544.

3.
  For an overview of Latin’s history see Ostler,
Ad Infinitum
.

4.
  Zgusta,
Lexicography Then and Now
, p. 266. See also Considine,
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
, chap. 3.

5.
  See McArthur,
Worlds of Reference
, p. 125.

6.
  Thompson,
Henry George Liddell
, pp. 2, 5.

7.
  Thompson,
Henry George Liddell
, p. 10.

8.
  Thompson,
Henry George Liddell
, p. 54.

9.
  Stray,
Classical Dictionaries
, p. 97.

10.
  See Jones’s preface in Liddell and Scott,
A Greek–English Lexicon
, revised by Jones, p. iii.

11.
  Liddell and Scott,
Greek–English Lexicon
, pp. xix, xx, xvii.

12.
  Woolsey, “Greek Lexicography,” p. 630.

13.
  Fishlake, “Greek-and-English Lexicography,” p. 166.

14.
  Liddell and Scott,
Greek–English Lexicon
, p. xviii.

15.
  Smith,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
, p. vii.

16.
  See Classen, “
Ars Longa
,” pp. 423–25.

17.
  Sandys, “Review of Pauly-Wissowa,” p. 113.

18.
  See Classen, “
Ars Longa
,” p. 428.

CHAPTER 17
½: LOST PROJECTS

1.
  McArthur,
Worlds of Reference
, p. 78; Witty, “Medieval Encyclopedias,” p. 285; Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 40.

2.
  See Blom,
Encyclopédie
, pp. 107–8.

3.
  Wilkinson,
Chinese History
, p. 605; Ding Zhigang,
China
, in Wedgeworth,
World Encyclopedia
.

4.
  Boswell,
Boswell in Holland
, p. 161.

CHAPTER 18
: WORDS TELLING THEIR OWN STORIES

1.
  See Willemyns,
Dutch
, p. 125.

2.
  Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 68.

3.
  Noorden Graaf, “In the Shadow,” p. 13.

4.
  Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” pp. 68–69.

5.
  See Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 68.

6.
  Trench,
On Some Deficiencies
, p. 9.

7.
  Philological Society,
Proposal
, p. 4.

8.
  Murray,
Caught in the Web of Words
, pp. 11, 32.

9.
  See Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 73.

10.
  Trench,
On Some Deficiencies
, p. 29.

11.
  Trench,
On Some Deficiencies
, p. 31.

12.
  Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 74.

CHAPTER 18
½: OVERLONG AND OVERDUE

1.
  Dickens,
David Copperfield
, p. 169.

2.
  Blount,
Glossographia
, sig. A3
r
.

3.
  Rees,
Cyclopædia
, 1:vii.

4.
  Coughlan, “Dictionary Reaches Final Definition.”

5.
  Lough,
“Encyclopédie,”
p. 3.

6.
  Watts, “
Encyclopédie Méthodique
,” p. 350.

7.
  Murray,
Caught in the Web of Words
, pp. 142–43.

8.
  Headrick,
When Information Came of Age
, p. 155.

9.
  Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” pp. 61–62.

10.
  The annual reports from 1991 to 2010 appear at
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/cad/
.

CHAPTER 19
: AN ALMS-BASKET OF WORDS

1.
  See Shea,
Phone Book
.

2.
  Katz,
Cuneiform to Computer
, p. 55.

3.
  Dodd,
Beauties
, 1:vi, 23.

4.
  Boswell,
Life
, 3:197.

5.
  Cochrane, “Most Famous Book of Its Kind,” p. 9.

6.
  Bartlett,
Collection
, p. i.

7.
  Katz,
Cuneiform to Computer
, p. 79.

8.
  “Bartlett’s Updated,” from Gleick’s
blog,
Bits in the Ether
,
http://www.around.com/bartletts.html
.

9.
  Bunge, “Alms-Basket,” p. 24.

10.
  Hayman, “E. Cobham Brewer,” pp. ix–xi.

11.
  Brewer,
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
, 1st ed., p. v.

12.
  Brewer,
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
, 1st ed., p. v.

13.
  Hayman, “E. Cobham Brewer,” p. x.

14.
  Brewer,
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
, 1st ed., p. vii.

CHAPTER 19
½: READING THE DICTIONARY

1.
  Day,
Market Driven Organization
, chapter 6 (no page).

2.
  Collins,
Are You a Geek?
p. 93.

3.
  Eliot,
Middlemarch
, p. 52.

4.
  Disraeli, “Imprisonment of the Learned,” in
Curiosities
, 1:56.

5.
  Quoted in Franklin,
Prison Writing
, p. 153.

6.
  Hill, ed.,
Johnsonian Miscellanies
, 2:352.

7.
  Orr,
Life and Letters
, 1:75.

8.
  Folsom,
Walt Whitman’s Native Representations
, p. 15.

9.
  Ferlinghetti and Peters,
Literary San Francisco
, p. 116.

10.
  Borges,
Seven Nights
, p. 109.

11.
  Stavans,
Dictionary Days
, p. 31.

12.
  Clark,
Huxleys
, p. 227.

13.
  Tedlow,
Andy Grove
, p. 295; Lesinski,
Bill Gates
, p. 9.

14.
  Anderson,
Wikipedia
, p. 15.

15.
  Kogan,
Great EB
, pp. 297?98.

16.
  Jacobs,
Know It All
, p. 5.

17.
  Jacobs,
Know It All
, p. 120.

18.
  Jacobs,
Know It All
, p. 9.

19.
  Shea,
Reading the OED
, pp. ix–x.

CHAPTER 20
: MODERN MATERIA MEDICA

1.
  Gray and Carter,
Anatomy
, p. vii.

2.
  Richardson,
Making
, p. 14.

3.
  Richardson,
Making
, p. 144.

4.
  Richardson,
Making
, p. 6.

5.
  Richardson,
Making
, p. 166.

6.
  Gray and Carter,
Anatomy
, p. 675.

7.
  Richardson,
Making
, p. 168.

8.
  See Richardson,
Making
, pp. 197–99.

9.
  “Student’s Library,” p. 349.

10.
  Hacking, “Lost in the Forest.”

11.
  Cartwright,
Diseases
, p. 332.

12.
  Hacking, “Lost in the Forest.”

13.
  Davis, “Encyclopedia of Insanity,” p. 64.

14.
  Carey, “Revising Book on Disorders.”

15.
  Roan, “Revising the Book on Mental Illness.”

16.
  
DSM
, p. 39.

17.
  Davis, “Encyclopedia of Insanity,” pp. 61, 62.

CHAPTER 20
½: INCOMPLETE AND ABANDONED PROJECTS

1.
  Segar, “Dictionary Making,” p. 210; Dressman, “Walt Whitman’s Plans,”
p. 463; Warren,
Walt Whitman’s Language Experiment
, pp. 41–42; and Folsom,
Walt Whitman’s Native Representations
, p. 16.

2.
  Read, “Projected English Dictionaries.”

3.
  Osselton, “First English Dictionary?” pp. 175–76.

4.
  Stray,
Classical Dictionaries
, p. 59.

5.
  Sánchez, “Evolution of the Spanish Dictionary,” p. 137.

6.
  Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, p. 168.

7.
  Urban,
Nouveau sistême
, p. 54.

8.
  See Hahn,
Fachkommunikation
, p. 38.

9.
  Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, pp. 80–92.

10.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” pp. 17–18.

11.
  See Stockwell,
A History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 109.

12.
  Appiah and Gates,
Africana
, p. ix.

13.
  Appiah and Gates,
Africana
, pp. ix–x.

14.
  Keller and Fontenot,
Re-cognizing W. E. B. DuBois
, p. 73.

CHAPTER 21
: THE FOUNDATION STONE

1.
  See Campbell and Pryce,
Library
, p. 46.

2.
  See Whitmarsh,
Ancient Greek Literature
, p. 128.

3.
  Campbell and Pryce,
Library
, pp. 73–74.

4.
  See Manguel,
Library at Night
, pp. 52–53.