Nyord og allmenne ordbøker

Abstract

Neologisms and general dictionaries. The article presents a survey that was carried out among
editors at Kunnskapsforlaget concerning neologisms in the Norwegian language. The editors were
asked to mark which of the neologisms they would insert in general monolingual dictionaries. At
the NFL Conference in Sønderborg 2005, the same test was done with the audience. The results
are compared with the editors’ survey and some comments are made on how academic lexicographers
and commercial lexicographers and encyclopaedia editors evaluate which neologisms are
most useful.