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The present book, although it is called a dictionary, contains much ancillary encyclopedic, folkloristic, and fishloristic information, most of it carefully referenced to sources, which are documented in an eight-page bibliography.
(There is no suggestion at their entries that Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, or Louis Armstrong were black, but, while no direct mention is made of Bessie Smith's color, the “encyclopedic” information--in a six-line entry--yields the intelligence that “She died from injuries received in a car accident, reportedly after being refused admission to a `Whites only' hospital.”
3) Why is the dispute between the Greek government and the British Museum over the Elgin Marbles raised in a dictionary (regardless of how encyclopedic it is)?
But the purpose of such entries is linguistic rather than encyclopedic: they are there to show how they are pronounced or how their form differs in different languages:
Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).
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