• Categories
  • Lexicographer Quotes   3
  • The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Innovation Quotes , Lexicographer Quotes