BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of it All at the Oxford English Dictiona
THE WORD DETECTIVE: SEARCHING FOR THE MEANING OF IT ALL AT THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY By John Simpson Basic Books, $27.99, 364 pages In 1976, when John Simpson, answering an ad in The Times ...
A new book explores the fascinating medieval history of a word whose current meaning has little to do with skill or labor. So if “craft” is guaranteed to start a fight, what is “craeft,” exactly? To ...
Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. By Dennis Duncan Dennis ...
If you look up “microaggression” or “sheeple” or “safe space” on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the entries won’t have a byline—but their author is Stefan Fatsis. A longtime journalist ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results