Word by word : the secret life of dictionaries / Kory Stamper

By:

Stamper, Kory [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 296 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781101870945
110187094X

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LOC classification:

P327 .S695

Contents:

Hrafnkell: on falling in love -- But: on grammar -- It's: on "grammar" -- Irregardless: on wrong words -- Corpus: on collecting the bones -- Surfboard: on defining -- Pragmatic: on examples -- Take: on small words -- Bitch: on bad words -- Posh: on etymology and linguistic originalism -- American dream: on dates -- Nuclear: on pronunciation -- Nude: on correspondence -- Marriage: on authority and the dictionary -- Epilogue: the damnedest thing

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index

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