Michael Adams

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

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

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

Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real … Dig This Dictionary!

John Florio (1552–1625) was well-positioned to write an Italian–English dictionary. His father Michelangelo, an Italian Protestant (of all things), fled … It Wasn’t All Greek to Steve A. Demakapoulos

Early dictionaries were books for readers. Lacking the tools of twenty-first century marketing, early dictionary publishers advertised a forthcoming dictionary … Advertising Dictionaries

Madeline Kripke’s collection is famous as a collection of dictionaries and related works, so it comes as a surprise to … The All-American Spelling Bee

If a company publishes school dictionaries, it probably wants students and teachers to use their dictionaries effectively, so it comes … Exercising Dictionaries

This is yet another story of a box within a box among the thousand and more boxes comprising the unpacked … Marketing Webster’s Third: The Big Book as a Big Box

One of the most satisfying moments in unpacking the Kripke Collection so far was when I reached into a box … A Box within a Box