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I am a librarian and someone posted this question on a listserv to which I subscribe because there is a children's book about a boy who collects words. Logophile doesn't really seem to cover it. I was thinking of something akin to philatelist.
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This comes close. Quote:
lexiconophilist n. One who loves dictionaries and other books of words.
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Or nerd.
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The words most often connected with book collectors are bibliophile and bibliomaniac. The former has a positive connotation, but the latter a negative one.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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quili: Logophile doesn't really seem to cover it. daleh: logophile -ron o.
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tsu, nah you're right it doesn't. Somewhat parallel to routine, which doesn't quite cover algorithm but so far it's as close as we've come
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lexilist? hmmm would a collector of lists be a listilist?
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