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The Hofmann Wobble

by Ben Lerner,

Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory

From The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, a fourteenth-century encyclopedia by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, an Egyptian scholar. The book was published this month by Penguin Classics. Translated from…

The Humble Vernacular

by Dan Chiasson,

A word-of-mouth dictionary

Encyclopedia Americana

by Anna Callahan,

The Old Dictionary

by Lydia Davis,

By Lydia Davis, in the Fall 1999 issue of Bomb. “The Old Dictionary” appears in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, published in 2010 by Picador. I have an old dictionary, about…

Sense and etymology in settlers’ English

by Dan Quayle, William A. Llewellyn,

Images at random

by Hugh Kenner,

Tools for living

by Harper’s Staff,

The big one

Beastly inventions

by Robert Powell,

What’s in a dictionary?

by Ethel Reed Strainchamps,

Who’s mispronouncing now?

by Norman Lewis,

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

The Hofmann Wobble

Pro Tips

The Humble Vernacular

Encyclopedia Americana

The Old Dictionary

Sense and etymology in settlers’ English

Images at random

Tools for living

Beastly inventions

What’s in a dictionary?

Who’s mispronouncing now?

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The Hofmann Wobble

Pro Tips

The Humble Vernacular

Encyclopedia Americana

The Old Dictionary

Sense and etymology in settlers’ English

Images at random

Tools for living

Beastly inventions

What’s in a dictionary?

Who’s mispronouncing now?

October 1951

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