Editing a Scholarly Bilingual Glossary

Photo: by Carla DeSantis (M. Danesi, Barron's E-Z Italian, p. 342). N.B. Photo is not of glossary discussed.

​Last fall, I had the opportunity to edit a somewhat different genre for me, but still within the scholarly realm: a 168-page English glossary of Nahuatl words, phrases, and place names, including some Hispanicized words derived from Nahuatl.

​As a linguist who has spent countless hours consulting dictionaries over the years, and with an academic interest in historical linguistics and language-teaching materials, I jumped at the chance to put this massive list of words in consistent and consultable order.

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