UNABRIDGED: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary

Fatsis, a lexicographer-in-training at America's most famous dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, dives into this volume to learn where new words come from, who decides what they mean, how they get into the dictionary, and how we use and think about them--all during a time of rapid-fire change in the way we create, define, and use words.