Word by Word

Word by WordBy: Kory Stamper 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 dont 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

漢人、蒙古人和滿州人都在這塊土地上成為霸主，

Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan

do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid

bite-size chunks

Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being “a lazy RainWing

” --Marcela Valdes

will be defined by this wave of powerful

quirky illustrations

Vibrantly illustrated by the talented Katie Abey

in vastly different parts of the world

Then Alexander spots Principal Vanderpants carrying a white bucket filled with spaghetti through that mysterious locked door on the 13th floor

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