Stamper's Word by Word is all about making dictionaries. OK - I know that sounds boring, but there is so much to it and it is really interesting in a learning kind of way.
"The vast majority of people give no thought to the dictionary they use: it merely is, like the universe. To one group of people, the dictionary was handed to humanity ex coili, a hallowed leather-bound tome of truth and wisdom as infallible as God. To another group of people, the dictionary is a thing you picked up in the bargain bin, paperback and on sale for a dollar because you felt that an adult should own a dictionary. Neither group realizes that their dictionary is a human document, constantly being compiled, proofread, and updated by actual, living, awkward people." Kory Stamper
This is a book about that process and all that entails.
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