The title of a new book by Kory Stamper, subtitled The Secret Life of Dictionaties: (#1) About how dictionaries are made and the people who make them, and about English words. From Stan Carey’s 3/21/17 review on his blog: Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper, an associate editor at Merriam-Webster, answers … Continue reading Word by Word