Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 370 pp., $30) Recently, I had a friend to lunch in New York and when I showed him my study, ...
Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. That symbolic importance is summed up in the phrase ...
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