Category: Experiences

Reflections from volunteers and other team members on the experience of working on Johnson’s Dictionary Online.

No king rules forever and no dictionary is everlasting

by Iván Ramírez Sánchez In the following lines I will try to give some justification for such a grandiloquent title, but it does reflect a reality that we tend to overlook, especially before delving into lexicography. Samuel Johnson was a brilliant mind who possessed what has been said of some Spanish lexicographers: “ardor intellectual” (intellectual ardor), which means that they...