Source — Wikipedia, "Adam Jacot de Boinod"
- Title: Adam Jacot de Boinod
- Author: unattributed (Wikipedia contributors)
- Publication: Wikipedia
- Date: n/a (accessed live; Wikipedia articles have no fixed publication date)
- URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Jacot_de_Boinod
- Type: tertiary / neutral, unverified against a primary source
- Accessed: 2026-08-29
Extract
- States Jacot de Boinod's first book, The Meaning of Tingo (2005), "featur[es] words which have no equivalent in the English language," and that it followed his research "examining 280 dictionaries and 140 websites" — i.e., presents itself (per this tertiary account) as more systematically researched than the later web-listicle instances of the genre, though the underlying research method is not independently checked by this project.
- Corroborated independently on publication year (2005) by bookseller records found in this session's search (Amazon, AbeBooks, Penguin Random House editions), which converge on an October 2005 first publication.
Gaps
- Tertiary source only; the book's actual contents, sourcing, and any claims about specific words have not been checked against the book itself or a review of it.
- This project has not yet confirmed the specific claim (from a Language Log comment, see
languagelog-pullum-2010-translating-the-untranslatable.md's Gaps) that Boinod's book itself drew on earlier compendia predating it — that would need a source discussing the book's own bibliography, not this biographical page.