This past January 29th, Dr. Paz Battaner, noted lexicographer and retired professor of Spanish, read her academic speech of acceptance upon being elected to occupy the "s" chair in the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid. Her speech, entitled 'Some bottomless pits in dictionaries' (“Algunos pozos sin fondo en los diccionarios”) was answered in turn by Academy member Dr. Ignacio Bosque, who highlighted the fact that Dr. Battaner would participate in the preparation of the 24th edition of the Academy's dictionary.
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