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3. The big chains have been quietly going into the business of compiling book sales data themselves--an obvious thing to do, given their dominance of the retail market--and don't want to give up what amounts to a competitive advantage.
In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.
About a dozen years ago, when looking through a mail-order catalogue of sports clothes, I noticed a section offering fishing flies and became intrigued with their names—names like Cree Sedge and Greenwell's Glory . In a desultory way (I admit), I tried to discover more about the names, with an eye toward compiling a work on the subject.
Such humor or whimsy tends, in Johnson's work at any rate, to be of a fairly cynical turn--in keeping both with his general opinionatedness and with his specific feelings of demoralization while compiling the dictionary in the run-up to its publication in 1755.
Muriel R. Schulz's 1975 essay on the semantic derogation of women leads into a discussion of compiling a Feminist Dictionary against the grain of the authors' view in predominantly male lexicography.