Word by Word

Author:Kory Stamper [Stamper, Kory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

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*1 The Eleventh was an odd duck production-wise: the citations we needed to review for the new edition straddled the divide between paper and database. So though we had a database in place when the Eleventh was being written in the late 1990s, we reviewed citations in print. I do miss those boxes of citations, if I’m being perfectly, stupidly honest.

*2 See the grammatical rabbit hole of one use of “but” in the chapter appropriately titled “But.”

*3 rhad·a·man·thine \ˌra-də-ˈman(t)-thən, -ˈman-ˌthīn\ adj : rigorously strict or just (MWU)

vec·tu·rist \ˈvekchərə̇st\ n, pl -s : a collector of transportation tokens (MWU)

*4 This is not an error. For whatever reason, people tend to use the open compound “back seat” in the phrase “take a back seat” but the closed “backseat” when referring to the seats behind the driver. English!

*5 Sense 2.

*6 I saved the hooting and hollering for when I was outside.

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