In a message dated 20/11/2003 12:44:06 GMT Standard Time, xyz@city.dk writes:

Saværket

Savværk - like in saw works, you need one v for sav and another for værk

It is fun to be mentioned in your gogle now and then! <<

I think I copied it correctly from the kirkebog, which can have mistakes and archaisms but will check next time.

Danish is an academic language with correct spelling laid down by a committeee authorised by law.

The Italians and the French were the first with this to create ACADEMY

Académie française founded in1635

LINKS = Liens:
"Académie des beaux-arts
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Académie des Sciences
Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
A.C.C.T. (Agence nationale pour la Francophonie)
Bibliothèque Mazarine
D.G.L.F. (Délégation générale à la langue française)
INaLF (Institut national de la langue française)
Institut de France "

they breed


academy italiano says Google Language Tools

not much luck trying that so another aproach Google Search: italia

(google has web directories in all sorts of languages)
Directory Web di Google - World > Italiano > Regionale > Europa > Italia

BTW Directory Web di Google - World > Italiano > Società > Genealogia

Dizionari Dizionario
Academia Belgica
getting closer in the right city I hope

I hope they have good links Academia Belgica LINKS: "Istituti e Academie a Roma"

Accademia di Danimarca Accademia di Danimarca: "Danish Literature"
and the trail goes to Florence Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

links to
Gabriel : Gateway to Europe's National Libraries: "Gabriel is the World Wide Web service of Europe's National Libraries represented in the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). In Gabriel you can find information about all the National Libraries of Europe, their services and the online exhibitions they offer. The objectives of Gabriel have been defined in the Gabriel Mission Statement.

Search all the websites of the European National Libraries"

OH dear time for lunch

Well Aunty might help
BBC - History - Georgian literature, art and music c.1800: "The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a mushrooming of scholarly and popular works that we still consider 'classics', for example, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), Hume's Treatise on Human Nature (1739), Johnson's Dictionary (1755), Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811), Scott's Waverley Novels (1814 onwards), Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Tennyson's Lady of Shalot (1832)."

YES An Introduction to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

>> The lack of a major English dictionary was by the early eighteenth century a source of national embarrassment to the English nation in general and to the English intellectual world in particular. English dictionaries were available, but none could compare to the products of the two great continental academies: the Accademia della Crusca, who in 1612 issued its Vocabulario degli Accademici della crusca, and the French Royal Academy, whose members worked fifty-five years in compiling Le dictionnaire de l'Academie francaise (1694), and spent another eighteen years revising it.

>> London publishers were acutely aware of the need for a national dictionary. Samuel Johnson was approached and he agreed to tackle the task. A group of publishers underwrote this expensive project. Johnson was to be paid £1,575 in installments, out of which he was to defray expenses and pay for any help he received. Johnson was aware that he faced a huge task; he visualized his effort not only as a scholar filling a void, but also as an Englishman contributing to the national literature.

Johnson's friend Dr. William Adams marveled that Johnson expected to finish the project in three years; Adams pointed out that it had taken the French Academy's forty members forty years to compile the French dictionary (in fact, it had taken the French Academy fifty-five years). Johnson was said to have replied: "Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman."

The task would take Johnson far longer than three years. The contract had been signed in June, 1746; the Dictionary did not appear in print until 1755.
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good TV programme on that


Some Selected Definitions from Johnson's Dictionary: "GRU'BSTREET. n.s. Originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.

The first part, though calculated only for the meridian of grubstreet, was yet taken notice of by the better sort. Arbuthn.
I'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays. Gay. "



the Danes have Google Web Katalog - World > Dansk > Reference > Ordbøger: "Retskrivningsordbogen -
Begrænset online-udgave, fra Dansk Sprognævn."


Dansk Sprognævn

Retskrivningsordbogen på nettet
3. udgave, © 1996-2002 Dansk Sprognævn


savværk sb., -et, -er, i sms. savværks-, fx savværksarbejder.

which Correct - writing - dictionary is in every school satchel, well rucksack in DNK DK


LUNCH