Michael Adams

At the beginning of 2023, I wrote that I’d pull interesting dictionaries and occasionally other language books and items from ...

I was surprised that I wrote so much about prices in my recent post about the unique copy of Louis-Lucien ...

Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors ...

We hoard our slang in dictionaries, but lexicographers, like the dragons of lore, steal their gems from others. In the ...

If you supply schools with dictionaries and hope that every home with children will have a children’s dictionary handy, you ...

Few of us, not even lexicographers, recall William Somner (1606–1669), but he figures importantly in the history of English dictionaries ...

Madeline Kripke favored profanity and obscenity and collected many works published during the Great Censorship, when the Comstock Act of ...

You Chirped a Chinful! Including Private Bill’s Dictionary of Service Men’s Chin Chatter [1943] is a bit of World War ...

Ed Finegan and I have just submitted the Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary to Cambridge University Press. If you’re a ...

Any large collection of dictionaries will overflow with works by Noah Webster, but Madeline Kripke also had a collector’s eye ...