Mon Oct 19 · 6:00pm
Creating an Icon: The Making of the New Collegiate Dictionary
Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large at Merriam-Webster, tells the history of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the bestselling hardcover after the Bible, and how its new Twelfth Edition was revised using two decades of online data on which words are looked up most and least. Sokolowski writes definitions and has served as a spelling-bee pronouncer worldwide; his forthcoming book is By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary.
$20