Stamper, Kory
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 in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 410 STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 STASummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000