Online lecture, 26 September:
Prof. Stefan Dollinger: The #Dictionary of #Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition (2025): non-dominant varieties and the national-identification angle in the 2020s
Details & free registration: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie...
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An illustration of the dictionary craze in Enlightenment Europe on the left, with the title of the talk and some information on Professor Holmberg (Stockholm University) on the right
Hybrid seminar, 29 Nov:
Linn Holmberg: The #Dictionary Craze in #Enlightenment Europe, 1665–1789
Everybody welcome! More information on the website of the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie...
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Hybrid seminar, 24 Sept: Jaakko Raunamaa on Pre-Christian Finnic personal names. More information: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie... #hellexsoc
.@TanjaSaily On finding neologisms in early English letters: "…and then there's the minor matter of spelling variation…"
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Now @TanjaSaily on #neologisms in early English letters - probably the very first talk to reference the #STRATAS project.
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Pitkäranta just antedated the #NeoLatin word #lexicographia to 1646 (cf. Eng. word #lexicography from 1680s).
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Pitkäranta: in order to help identify insects in #NeoLatin dissertations, has bought a bunch of entomological books :)
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Pitkäranta on #NeoLatin neologisms: so far has antedated @OED on every word!
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