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The Life of a Dictionary Writer

How a dictionary writer defines English

“People think of English as this monolithic thing but it’s really not, it’s much more like a river.” Kory Stamper, associate editor at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Pantheon, 2017), explains what it’s like to define English words and why there are those dots in the middle of words in the dictionary.

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Kory Stamper
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Pantheon
Merriam-Webster
2017
Vox

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