CSPAN2 Interview With Lara Heimert July 31, 2016
Transformation of dictionaries or the complete transformation of lexicography in the english language. Anyone whos read the professor in the mad men, you can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the mid 19th century. There were read arers all over readers all over the world who would submit little files, and eventually those usages, wherever the dictionary was revised which was about every 80 years, would make it into the next round. So it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of worse. Of course, now its of words. Of course, now its online, a...