Eventually, since English is a living language, the dictionary compilers will no doubt follow.

Dictionary compilers recognise this problem and provide separate definitions for such compounds.

Bierce quite rightly takes his place, in my mind, as the king of the satirical dictionary compilers.

Dictionary compilers said that although the terms are associated with modern electronic communications, some are surprisingly old.

The Internet also enables rival dictionary compilers to share a common digital "corpus," or archive of usage samples.

The fashion press may like a new word as much as dictionary compilers do, but fashion fans also like a tried-and-tested way of looking good while dressing down.

Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided that the word list for the forthcoming edition of its largest volume is embrangled with words so obscure that they are linguistic recrement.

Seven local dialect societies have each provided dictionary compilers at Collins with a list of three words that they believe to be endangered or out of use except by language enthusiasts.

Many checklist and dictionary compilers do act as distributors although distribution and publication may be restricted to the immediate purpose for which the list was created (e.g. a specific survey scheme).

And the task of deciding what is 'new' falls to dictionary compilers who are struggling to catch the range of jargon, technical terms and 'sublanguages'that each year flow into usage.

The 214 Kangxi radicals act as a de facto standard, which may not be duplicated exactly in every Chinese dictionary, but which few dictionary compilers can afford to completely ignore.

Ivimey's Appendix of Animadversions on Samuel Johnson's view of Milton ended by calling him "the contracted Tory pensioner, dictionary compiler, high-church bigot, and semi-popish reviler".

RASSELAS History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson, eighteenth-century English writer and dictionary compiler.

Alan Heusaff, also Alan Heussaff (23 July 1921 in Saint-Yvi, Finistère - 3 November 1999 in Galway) was a Breton nationalist, linguist, dictionary compiler, prolific journalist and lifetime campaigner for solidarity between the Celtic peoples.

Though most Esperanto dictionary compilers have been men, notable female Esperanto lexicographers include Adriana J. Middelkoop, who wrote Dutch-Esperanto and Esperanto-Dutch dictionaries (1971) and Ilona Koutny, chief editor of a Hungarian-Esperanto dictionary, 1996).