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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

The Humble Vernacular

A word-of-mouth dictionary

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The Old Dictionary

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…

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