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Coming soon: The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary, ed. Edward Finegan and Michael Adams (Cambridge University Press: June 2024). www-cambridge-org.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/core/books/cam…

CFP:The history of lexicography: language variation in bilingual lexicography 1500-1900 (International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences) ichols.org/ichols-16/work…

The missing link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/49451

Dictionaries 44:1 (2023) now in print, online at Project Muse. Topics: Editors' proofs of OED1 Early Portuguese data Spence's (1775) Pronouncing Dictionary Oxford Dictionary of African American English Wortgeschichte digital EDD Online 4.0 E. Ward Gilman 19th-c. dictionaries

Deadline for news for DSNA newsletter is coming very soon (March 27). Email news to dsna.membernews@gmail.com.

The Spring 2023 issue of the DSNA newsletter is being prepared now. Deadline for sending news to dsna.membernews@gmail.com will be some time in mid to late March.

DSNA member Michael Adams has started blogging about the unpacking and processing of the more than 20,000 items in the Kripke Collection of lexicography recently arrived at the Lilly Library (Indiana University). Details at facebook.com/groups/diction…

... David Micklthwait on Webster's Improved Dictionary of the English Language (London, c. 1858) / Akbar Hesabi and Alireze Amaree on frame-based lexicography for translation

Dictionaries 43:2 (2022), ed. M. Lynne Murphy @lynneguist, now available at @ProjectMUSE: John Considine and Peter Gilliver on Derwent Coleridge and the launching of the OED / Michael Roberson on Speght's Chaucer glossaries / Dennis Baron on lexicography and the law / ...

A tribute to the late E. Ward Gilman in the @DictionarySocNA newsletter by John Morse. "Gil began his career @MerriamWebster in 1958...He went to on have a direct hand in the 7th, 8th, 9th, & 10th Collegiate Dictionaries & an indirect hand in the 11th." #gilman" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dictionarysociety.com/news/#gilman

CFP: The 24th Biennial Dictionary Society of North America Conference will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 31 May to 3 June, 2023. dictionarysociety.com/conference/dsn… @lynneguist

James Murray predicts @OED Online, sort of. (This from an interview which I think was published in 1913, although I’ve only seen it in a reprinted context from 1915.)

What have you been up to? The DSNA is glad to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more. Please send your news to dsna.membernews@gmail.com by Sept. 26 for inclusion in the next newsletter. (See recent newsletter at dictionarysociety.com/category/news/.)

Children's Dictionaries (special issue 43:1) now also available via @ProjectMUSE.

@lynneguist @DonnaFarina @traciatlarge @R_A_Fletcher @emckean @RebeccaJShapiro

Now published: Children's Dictionaries, special issue of Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (43:1), guest-edited by @RennieSusanC. Partial table of contents:

CFP: 24th Biennial DSNA Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, 31 May to 3 June 2023. Abstracts and proposals invited regarding any aspect of dictionaries, lexicography, or lexicology, in any language, historical or contemporary, by December 2022. dictionarysociety.com/conference/dsn…

Second notice: small grants awards, applications due June 17, 2022

The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. Details at dictionarysociety.com/news/