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So I am a word guy. I love words and language. The new book by Stefan Fatsis, “Unabridged - the Thrill (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary,” is exactly my kind of book. When the author was a boy he ...
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An Engaging New Book Looks at the Dictionary
A longtime journalist who lives in AU Park, Fatsis is best known for his book Word Freak, about the world of competitive ...
Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...
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Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. That symbolic importance is summed up in the phrase ...
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