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Stamper Kory - Word By Word The Secret Life Of Dictionaries - Paperback
Stamper Kory - Word By Word The Secret Life Of Dictionaries - Paperback
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Description: 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 lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever - changing word usage. Filled with fun facts for example the first documented usage of OMG was in a letter to Winston Churchill and Stamper's own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America's foremost irregardless apologist despite loathing the word) Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Title: Word By Word The Secret Life Of Dictionaries
Author(s): Stamper Kory
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781101970263
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/6/2018
Category: Publishing Industry & Book Trade
Description: 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 lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever - changing word usage. Filled with fun facts for example the first documented usage of OMG was in a letter to Winston Churchill and Stamper's own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America's foremost irregardless apologist despite loathing the word) Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Title: Word By Word The Secret Life Of Dictionaries
Author(s): Stamper Kory
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781101970263
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/6/2018
Category: Publishing Industry & Book Trade
