Editorial Edward Finegan Seven articles, three reports of reference works in progress, and reviews of eight books appear in this issue of Dictionaries. Contributors come from Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, although Germany’s Annette Klosa is currently working in Vietnam, while Hong Kong’s Janny Leung is spending a year in the US. Seven contributors appear in the journal’s pages for the first time, while among the more familiar names are two former presidents of the Dictionary Society of North America and two former editors of the journal. Most of the contributors—including several with an academic affiliation—are practicing lexicographers and bring that perspective and experience to bear in their contributions. Four contributions originated as presentations at DSNA’s 20th biennial meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. E-dictionaries have enabled study of user practices in a way not possible or imagined with paper dictionaries, and in this issue Annette Klosa reports results from an online study of how users of a German e-dictionary use and regard citations presented in alternative formats. Four contributions treat the increasingly prominent intersection of lexicology, lexicography, and the law, with discussions about trademark disputes by Orin Hargraves, Adam Kilgarriff, and Ronald R. Butters, and with a review of a book about legal lexicography itself by Janny H. C. Leung. Sadly, Adam Kilgarriff passed away while his contribution was still in progress, and it is published here with respect for Adam’s significant contributions to lexicography. From its earliest years the journal has maintained a special place for historical lexicography and the history of lexicography. That pattern continues with Peter Gilliver’s article exemplifying an outline history of quotation collecting for the OED and with Suzanne Power’s report on a project that digitizes the quotation slips collected for the Dictionary of Newfoundland English; both pieces tell engaging human stories. In a [End Page ix] related vein, Steve Kleinedler reviews published histories of the Concise Oxford Dictionary and The Chambers Dictionary, and Ammon Shea reviews David Crystal’s more popular treatment of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The lexicography of slang also features prominently in the reviews. Tom Dalzell reviewed the second edition of Jonathon Green’s Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang in an earlier volume of the journal and in this issue reviews The Vulgar Tongue: Green’s History of Slang. Dalzell’s and Terry Victor’s edition of The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is reviewed here by J. Lawrence Mitchell. An updated and expanded edition of the Origin of New York City’s Nickname “The Big Apple” is reviewed by Allan Metcalf. Also in this issue, Orion Montoya reviews Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography. Contributions from two former editors of the journal top the table of contents. With many years’ experience editing OUP’s Dictionary of Quotations, Elizabeth Knowles leads us through the twists and turns of frequently cited aphorisms ascribed to Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Michael Adams, focusing principally on The American Heritage Dictionary in various editions, treats language ideologies, especially those surrounding prescriptivism and descriptivism. In addition to the digitization project mentioned above, Reference Works in Progress describes two programs that highlight ways in which lexicography thrives in disparate guises. In the one, Ilan Kernerman sets out three multi-language lexicographic datasets and their interlinking across dozens of languages. In the other, Rebecca Rickman introduces the Los Angeles Public Library’s showcasing of language and lexicography in the Oxford English Dictionary; the month-long showcase aims to draw Angelenos, from all walks of life and speaking a myriad of native languages, into dialog with that great dictionary. All the articles published here received guidance from two or, in most cases, three referees. Referees’ guidance is invaluable—to editors and authors—and the service of referees sometimes goes unremarked, despite its being crucial to a journal’s success. As editor, I am deeply appreciative of the generosity of the scholars and lexicographers who refereed articles for this issue. I am also thankful to Wendalyn Nichols, the reviews editor, for her contribution...