A review by spinstah
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

5.0

Super interesting book about lexicography, the writing of dictionaries! It’s intersperesed with lots of stories that illustrate the different aspects and steps to it. Sounds like a dry subject, but this was really well-done. The writing was great too. There were a lot of words that I looked up (my kindle makes that so easy) but there was enough context that it wasn’t really necessary. Nor did it feel like one of those books where the author is too enamored of SAT words.