Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

Một cuốn sách cực kì thú vị của 𝗞𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿 - 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱, nhà từ điển học và biên tập viên cho từ điển Merriam-Webster. 𝗗𝗮̀𝗻𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗮̂́𝘁 𝗰𝗮̉ 𝗰𝗮́𝗰 𝗯𝗮̣𝗻 đ𝗮𝗺 𝗺𝗲̂ 𝗻𝗴𝗼̂𝗻 𝗻𝗴𝘂̛̃, 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗵 𝘃𝗶𝗲̂𝗻 𝗻𝗴𝗼̂𝗻 𝗻𝗴𝘂̛̃ 𝗵𝗼̣𝗰, cuốn sách thú vị này sẽ đi sâu tìm hiểu cách mà cả từ điển và tiếng Anh nói chung được tạo ra.

“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 dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage.





Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.