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24th January 2011: Walking Tree Publishers in the OED
Walking Tree Publishers have made it onto the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. The actual entry reads:
dictionary-monger n. a lexicographer; a person who has dealings with dictionaries.
1758 J. REED Madrigal & Trulletta I. i. 3, I cannot.. forbear taking notice of the negligence of our *dictionary-mongers, in omitting the explanation of the word intire; or, as it is frequently written entire, in the sense I have now used it.
1818 M. R. MITFORD in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 27 After the fashion of certain dictionary-mongers who ring the changes upon two words.
2008 J. GARTH in S. Caldecott & T. Honegger Tolkien's Lord of Rings 25 Tolkien was already an inveterate dictionary-monger; his sole contribution to Exeter's ungergraduate suggestions book was for the purchase of 'a good English dictionary'.
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The paper cited is John Garth's 'Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War' published in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration.
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