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Posted on September 13, 2018March 1, 2019

“nothing terribly mysterious”

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There’s nothing terribly mysterious about the process of writing a dictionary. You figure out what you want to include, research it, and then write it up.
—Jesse Sheidlower, “The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project,” The New Yorker (September 22, 2017)

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