linguablogger

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Thanks to the indefatigable aldiboronti (who should really set up shop as a linguablogger), my attention has been directed to a wonderful essay, "The Perils of Lexicography," by Judith Robertson, an Australian lexicographer who takes the trouble to investigate the true origins of a number of purportedly Australian words:I was recently examining Jonathon Green's Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (1998).

languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF LEXICOGRAPHY. 2005
I'd write this off as a quaint and obsolete colonialism but linguablogger Jordan Macvay reports that the situation today isn't much simpler.

languagehat.com: MALAY PRONOUNS. 2005