8: People who make dictionaries - Review of WORD BY WORD by Kory Stamper
Added 2017-05-18 19:40:16 +0000 UTCDictionaries: they’re made by real people!
In episode 8 of Lingthusiasm, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch talk about Word by Word, a recent book by Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, about how dictionaries get made. (Spoiler: we liked it.) We also talk about how dictionaries get made for languages that don’t have any yet, the changing role of dictionaries on the internet and with social media, and how words often have a longer history than we expect (’g-string’, for example has been in use since at least 1878).
For more information, and links to things mentioned in this episode, visit the show page: http://lingthusiasm.com/post/160811944696/lingthusiasm-episode-8-people-who-make
Comments
Ah right, that would make sense! I knew about Pinyin but hadn't realized it was being used for dictionary alphabetization!
Lingthusiasm
2020-03-27 01:16:04 +0000 UTC
