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A longtime journalist who lives in AU Park, Fatsis is best known for his book Word Freak, about the world of competitive ...

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 ...

Although it seems like Wikipedia is today’s most common reference source, the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of the University of Chicago Library pays homage to the historical favorite in ...

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 ...