Summary
"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know that OMG was first used... Full description
- 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.