Sources of lexicography

[Michael Witzel]

At 15:46 +0200 3/5/99, Klaus Karttunen wrote:
>, what did MW mean,
>when he referred to the first edition of his own dictionary. Had he
>forgotten, where the word was taken into the dictionary or what?

Vanity. --See p. xxxii (his own notes from various texts)....

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