on dictionaries and acronyms and the ever-changing language that we speak and write and use and abuse
I HAVE RELIED ON and have an almost exclusive user of the Merriam-Webster dictionary for a long time—years before I began using the internet. In grade school, I was informed that the important word in a dictionary was not “Webster”—which was public domain and therefore generic and therefore useless as a sign of quality. [Read more] “on dictionaries and acronyms and the ever-changing language that we speak and write and use and abuse”