It's a deceptively simple book and, at the same time, impossibly ambitious. It's utilitarian but also incredibly erudite. I'm talking about the dictionary. For many decades, dictionaries were ...
Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." It's a ...