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Wordbook

The lead included "wordbook" as a synonym. Among books listed on Amazon, about 70,000 have the word "dictionary" in their title. About 7,000 have the word "lexicon". And only 500 have the word "wordbook". Similarly, in Google nGrams, wordbook is about 800x less common than dictionary. So wordbook isn't a common synonym for dictionary. I have removed it. --Macrakis (talk) 15:38, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request addition to "Other types"

I would appreciate it if someone added a definition of "analytical dictionary" to "Other types", or wherever appropriate. I don't know the definition, so I cannot do add that. Olan7allen (talk) 21:29, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:31, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hebrew Dictionaries

In "The Age of Faith", volume IV of Will Durant's extraordinary 11 volume series "The Story of Civilization", (Chapter CHAPTER XVII The Mind and Heart of the Jew 500–1300), the author describes early development of Hebrew dictionaries and lexicographies. Here is an exerpt...

The poetry and learning of Menachem ben Saruk (910-70) attracted the attention of Hasdai ben Shaprut; the great minister called him to Cordova, and encouraged him in the task of compiling a dictionary of Biblical Hebrew. Menachem’s pupil Jehuda ibn Daud Chayuj (c. 1000) put Hebrew grammar upon a scientific basis with three Arabic works on the language of the Bible; Chayuj’s pupil Jonah ibn Janaeh (995-1050) of Saragossa surpassed him with an Arabic Book of Critique that advanced Hebrew syntax and lexicography; Judah ibn Quraish of Morocco (fl. 900) founded the comparative philology of the Semitic languages by his study of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic; the Qaraite Jew Abraham al-Fasi (i.e., of Fez, c. 980) furthered the matter with a dictionary in which all the words of the Old Testament were reduced to their roots alphabetically arranged. Nathan ben Yechiel of Rome (d. 1106) excelled all other Jewish lexicographers with his dictionary of the Talmud. In Narbonne Joseph Kimchi and his sons Moses and David (1160-1235) labored for generations in these fields; David’s Michlol, or Compendium, became for centuries the authoritative grammar of Hebrew, and was a constant aid to King James’ translators of the Bible.3 These names are chosen from a thousand.

I am not citing page numbers since they vary depending on edition (for example printed vs Kindle).

Please consider this addition.

Thank you. Robert McKercher, Toronto. BobMcK (talk) 11:41, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]