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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Word by Word The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Author: Kory Stamper
?We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don?t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.? —   — With wit and irreverence, Merriam-Webster lexicographer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781101970263
ISBN-10: 110197026X
Publication Date: 3/6/2018
Pages: 320
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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