Word by word: the secret life of dictionaries

A wonderful personal account of the author's obsession with the English language and her job as a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster in Springfield, Massachusetts.

 

Here's a lively talk (with questions from the audience afterwards) based on a few parts of her book, that she gave at Smith College Libraries:

McGrath Lecture by Kory Stamper '96, October 5, 2017

m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgxVuuYLCU

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