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Psychologist Tim Lomas created an interactive lexicography of emotion words in languages from Akkadian to Zulu, positing that expanded sentimental vocabularies enrich our inner lives.

Webster, who corresponded with founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, saw lexicography as an act of patriotism.

She had trained in translation and lexicography — the practice of compiling dictionaries — when Oxford University Press hired her in 1991 to oversee the publication of a new reference guide to Canadian English.

One of the main goals of historical lexicography is finding antedatings, as instances that push back the earliest known use of a term are called.

The English writer Eley Williams’s spirited first novel, “The Liar’s Dictionary,” is about lexicography.