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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know that OMG was first used in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up at night. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing dictionaries is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. Kory Stamper cracks open the complex,...
4) The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and deeply humane expedition through the world of words, The Word Detective will delight and inspire any lover of language.
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