“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of
Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
- 作者： Kory Stamper
- 出版社： VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL
- 出版日期： 2018-03-06
- ISBN碼： 9781101970263
- 編號： 1002150292648216
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