Comments on: The bizarre history of the Oxford Latin Dictionary http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/bizarre-history-oxford-latin-dictionary/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Reed http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/bizarre-history-oxford-latin-dictionary/#comment-360089 Reed Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:50:29 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=23638#comment-360089 Dear Alice, What splendid news that there will be a digital version of the Oxford Latin Dictionary! Is there anything that you might want an amateur Latinist to do in lending a hand to the effort? Best regards, Reed Palmer Tucson, Arizona USAl Dear Alice,
What splendid news that there will be a digital version of the Oxford Latin Dictionary! Is there anything that you might want an amateur Latinist to do in lending a hand to the effort?

Best regards,

Reed Palmer
Tucson, Arizona
USAl

]]> By: Mirielle http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/bizarre-history-oxford-latin-dictionary/#comment-355674 Mirielle Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:42:26 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=23638#comment-355674 Can you give an example of an entry in any dictionary that states when this or that lexeme or this or that sense of any lexeme "was first used"? Can you give an example of an entry in any dictionary that states when this or that lexeme or this or that sense of any lexeme “was first used”?

]]> By: Alice http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/bizarre-history-oxford-latin-dictionary/#comment-279200 Alice Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:06:10 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=23638#comment-279200 @Andrew Dunning A digital version of the OLD is in the works, along with revised (and eventually digital) versions of many of the titles you mentioned. Now it's just a matter of time and resources. (We can't have any more editors driven to madness!) -- Blog Editor Alice @Andrew Dunning

A digital version of the OLD is in the works, along with revised (and eventually digital) versions of many of the titles you mentioned. Now it’s just a matter of time and resources. (We can’t have any more editors driven to madness!)

– Blog Editor Alice

]]> By: Andrew Dunning http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/bizarre-history-oxford-latin-dictionary/#comment-279198 Andrew Dunning Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:48:56 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=23638#comment-279198 I knew that Lewis and Short were American, but I was not aware of how it had come to be published by Oxford rather than Harper. It would be very interesting to hear more about the history of this book. (And what were these 'visionary pamphlets' by Wyllie?) Now that you have the second edition of the OLD finished, is there any possibility of publishing the digital version? It would be particularly brilliant if you could create a site along the lines of <a href="http://logeion.uchicago.edu/" rel="nofollow">Logeion</a>, integrating all your classical dictionaries: the OLD, Lewis and Short, Liddell and Scott, and Lampe's Patristic Greek Lexicon, together with the <em>Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources</em> once it is complete. I knew that Lewis and Short were American, but I was not aware of how it had come to be published by Oxford rather than Harper. It would be very interesting to hear more about the history of this book. (And what were these ‘visionary pamphlets’ by Wyllie?)

Now that you have the second edition of the OLD finished, is there any possibility of publishing the digital version? It would be particularly brilliant if you could create a site along the lines of Logeion, integrating all your classical dictionaries: the OLD, Lewis and Short, Liddell and Scott, and Lampe’s Patristic Greek Lexicon, together with the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources once it is complete.

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