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The Invention of the Modern Dictionary

Word Matters

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i'm emily brewster, and word matters is produced by mariam webster in collaboration with new england public media. We often do think of the dictionary's kind of an eternal document, like it was always already there. But here's the big surprise, which is that, without revision, dictionaries die. Coming up on word matters, the invention of the modern dictionary.

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